[tex-live] svn vs. p4
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Sun May 21 23:11:48 CEST 2006
>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:
> Binaries for old environments/systems are compiled on old
> machines. svn requires more disk space than p4, which is probably
> not always available.
> Not a problem. You don't need svn to do a compile. Just an
> rsync'd tree is enough -- many of the binary sets we have now are
> compiled by people who never touched p4.
Gerben said that he used p4 to create binaries on old machines. I
suppose that he often has to change configure scripts and makefiles.
But only he can tell us whether rsync makes him happy.
Regards,
Reinhard
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