Versioning svn checkouts [Was: Re: alpha/beta software in Fedora 8?]

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 29 novembre 2007 13:47, Petr Machata a écrit :
> Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>> I'm saying that srpms have a long live, and that with svn if you
>> request revision $number 5 years later if upstream has re-done its
>> svn
>> in the meanwhile what you'll get is not what you got 5 years before.
>
> Agreed.  By then the upstream could disappear, migrate to whatever hip
> vc system there is in five years, etc.

The problem with svn is that the breakage is insidious, since the same
release numbers will be reused in the new tree without any special
warning. So explicit date is needed to disambiguate svn versions.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot