[LLVMdev] Subversion Migration

Reid Spencer rspencer at reidspencer.com
Sun Mar 4 06:57:47 PST 2007


On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 11:43 +0000, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Chris wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:
> > > Okay. Still think a separate repository would be a good idea. A bit
> > > of work to implement but would be a good idea as every *nix user has
> > > to implement a 'svn switch' putting the onus on them rather than on
> > > the Windows user.
> > 
> > I think you are mistakenly assuming that we aim to serve UNIX users at
> > the expense of win32 users.  Why make life harder for people on win32?
> > Perhaps we should move all the unix makefiles to a separate repo?
> 
> Besides, even a "nothing but Unix" developer should have the win32
> source as part of their tree so `grep -r', etc., takes it into account
> when planning changes.

True, but the directories in question don't contain source code. The
only platform specific code is (supposed to be) in lib/System.  The
xcode and win32 directories only contain project files and other build
related files for non-make builds.

Reid.

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Ralph.
> 
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