Re: [boost] Subversion

From: Lexington Luthor (lexington.luthor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-02 06:10:06

Doug Gregor wrote:
> 
> OSL is only offering to host a Subversion repository. Any proposal to 
> use anything other than Subversion will also need to specify who is 
> going to host the repository.
> 

I am not a boost developer, I only use boost so I don't know exactly how 
much traffic there is to the boost CVS, but most distributed SCM systems 
can use dumb servers. For example, darcs can use HTTP for public access 
and SSH for developers and even supports simply sending changesets by 
email and so on. Likewise, git supports http/ftp/rsync and probably others.

Also, distributed SCMs can be mirrored very easily (rsync), so the load 
can be balanced very easily even from a slow main machine.

Most of them only require a lot of traffic when first checking out or 
cloning a repository, after then the load is minimal.

I would suggest that the boost developers look at darcs.

LL