[cvsnt] cvs / subversion discussion

[Tony Hoyle]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:15:19 +0200, "Bo Berglund" <Bo.Berglund at system3r.se>
wrote:

>What's this binary delta stuff really? Do you mean that it will be used to
>save stoarge space and transfer bandwidth or is the plan also for binary
>merges?
>Which I doubt very much will ever work....

Mostly for storage...  It's a lot more efficient when there are non-text files
in the repository.  I'll probably stick with text merges for the actual
protocol.

>And concerning SQL, does this mean that we can choose a server to use or
>will it be bound to the MySql that I saw mentioned earlier? I guess that
>Oracle was just a blind shot...

Once the sql interface is there writing for a different one is relatively
trivial...  I could probably support anything I can install and test here,
eventually.  Initial development is being done with mysql, though.

>What about setting up the system, can it be expected to be done by the
>common software guy or do we need more expertise here?

It'll be relatively simple if the database is available already... I'm not
going to get into bundling databases :)  Luckily mysql is pretty easy to
configure.

Tony