Re: add FAQ about the status of symlink support.

[Travis P <sv...@castle.fastmail.fm>]

On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Alex Holst wrote:

> Quoting Greg Hudson (ghudson@MIT.EDU):
>> (2) I'm not sure there is developer consensus on the viewpoint you
>> presented.
>
> These are the viewpoints presented by developers in #svn at the time 
> the
> questions were asked. Maybe it would be best if someone else wrote the
> FAQ entry.
>

Alex's entry also agrees with what I recall transpired on the "how to 
check in a symlink?"
discussion on the users@ list just this month.
( http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svnusers/archive-2004-04/ )

-Travis


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Re: add FAQ about the status of symlink support.

[kf...@collab.net]

I've added Alex's patch to the FAQ, but tweaked it to describe [what I
think is] the current consensus about symlink support -- which matches
what Travis says below.

-Karl

Travis P <sv...@castle.fastmail.fm> writes:
> I would agree that the statement, "there are no plans to include such
> support" might be mistakenly read, "the issue has been considered and
> rejected."  Alex's faq suggestion also invited participatory comments
> about the portability problem, thus showing that the project is not
> closed to the idea.  Maybe the faq answer can be revised to more
> accurately describe the situation.
> 
> As I read the situation from the mailing lists (I don't know what
> transpired on irc either): given the lack of high priority amongst
> committers, it seems reasonable to say that Unix-style symlinks are
> not supported currently and their support is not a high priority nor
> an active development item amongst committers at this time in the
> Spring of 2004.  That's my impression about where things stand,
> without suggesting that things should be any different (though I am
> personally interested in having symlink support as I do a lot of
> non-Windows-only work :-).  If the situation changes, the faq could be
> updated of course.  Having lots of up-to-date information on the
> project website is a strength of this project.
> 
> The thread on users@ had a lot of suggestions such that I think it
> needed committer interest to mediate what would or would not be
> acceptable as an approach.
> 
> -Travis
> 
> 
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Re: add FAQ about the status of symlink support.

[Travis P <sv...@castle.fastmail.fm>]

On Apr 24, 2004, at 12:53 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 16:48, Travis P wrote:
>> Alex's entry also agrees with what I recall transpired on the "how to
>> check in a symlink?"
>> discussion on the users@ list just this month.
>> ( http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svnusers/archive-2004-04/ )
>
> I reviewed the thread and didn't see any committers saying, "No, we 
> will
> never have support for checking in symlinks."  I saw people discussing
> possible approaches to the Windows problem, and some committers saying
> it wasn't a very high priority.  Did I miss something?
>
> I don't know what transpired on the #svn channel.  But it's easy to
> confuse "none of us people currently with commit bits are very sanguine
> about doing it, for reasons foo and bar" with "it could never happen."

I would agree that the statement, "there are no plans to include such 
support" might be mistakenly read, "the issue has been considered and 
rejected."  Alex's faq suggestion also invited participatory comments 
about the portability problem, thus showing that the project is not 
closed to the idea.  Maybe the faq answer can be revised to more 
accurately describe the situation.

As I read the situation from the mailing lists (I don't know what 
transpired on irc either): given the lack of high priority amongst 
committers, it seems reasonable to say that Unix-style symlinks are not 
supported currently and their support is not a high priority nor an 
active development item amongst committers at this time in the Spring 
of 2004.  That's my impression about where things stand, without 
suggesting that things should be any different (though I am personally 
interested in having symlink support as I do a lot of non-Windows-only 
work :-).  If the situation changes, the faq could be updated of 
course.  Having lots of up-to-date information on the project website 
is a strength of this project.

The thread on users@ had a lot of suggestions such that I think it 
needed committer interest to mediate what would or would not be 
acceptable as an approach.

-Travis


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Re: add FAQ about the status of symlink support.

[Greg Hudson <gh...@MIT.EDU>]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 16:48, Travis P wrote:
> Alex's entry also agrees with what I recall transpired on the "how to 
> check in a symlink?"
> discussion on the users@ list just this month.
> ( http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svnusers/archive-2004-04/ )

I reviewed the thread and didn't see any committers saying, "No, we will
never have support for checking in symlinks."  I saw people discussing
possible approaches to the Windows problem, and some committers saying
it wasn't a very high priority.  Did I miss something?

I don't know what transpired on the #svn channel.  But it's easy to
confuse "none of us people currently with commit bits are very sanguine
about doing it, for reasons foo and bar" with "it could never happen."


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