Re: Re: CVS Access Method
| From: | Anant Narayanan | Date: | Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:42:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: CVS Access Method | ||
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> PEAR is really different from other projects like Mozilla or even PHP
> itself, which are compact. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to setup
> one repository per project/package instead of one repository for
> everything in PEAR ? Using a distributed system, it would be very easy
> to manage. If PEAR were a framework, it would make sense to have only
> one repository. But packages are not tied together and that's the idea
> of PEAR. Then why would they share the same changesets and revision
> numbers. Furthermore, with multiple repository, it becomes easier to
> manage partial checkouts, permissions, workload, bandwidth, etc :)
> That's just an idea.
PEAR packages are already free to use any other repository of their
choosing. We should probably advertise this fact and encourage it :)
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Anant