[MPlayer-dev-eng] old CVS repositories

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:32:22AM +0100, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:54:32 +0100
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:28:47PM +0100, Roberto Togni wrote:
> > 
> > > So my idea is:
> > > - do not convert dead modules, if needed provide a read-only cvs server
> > > for them, else forget about them. convert them automatically (no need
> > > to hand-edit them to fix conversion) if read-only cvs is too much work
> > > to setup. as an alternative we could provide a snapshot of current
> > > version and a tarball of cvs repository for each of them
> > 
> > I definitely will not set up a CVS server on mphq2.  So it's either
> > Subversion or nothing.
> 
> Then I hope you have some plan so that everyone out there who has a
> cvs checkout with some modifications in it will still be able to
> cvs diff (so that they can export their modifications to a fresh svn
> checkout).
> Something like creating a cvs.mplayerhq.hu pointing to mphq1 and
> keeping it running during some times (at least one month ?) after
> the switch to svn.

make a tar.bz2 of the RCS files and put that online after that so
people could set up their own private cvs server to make the diff

and yeah i vote for >1 month, 3month is minimum IMHO

or a evil trick, give the RCS files to SF :)

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Michael