Bryant Eastham wrote:
All-
This is going to sound more harsh than I mean it to. I appreciate that
people have differing opinions on this subject.
To the core developers: please use Subversion in a more standard way.
Yes, Subversion can be used in many different ways. However, just
because it can doesn�t mean that it should, and to those of us who try
to use your repository (at least from my point of view) what you have
done is extremely confusing.
Let me just walk you through my experience today. Wireshark 1.2.0 is now
released, and I must build my plugins based on it for internal
distribution. To do this I need to download the source code
corresponding to the build, both Windows and Linux. I need to determine
what to check out.
I think Gerald generally creates the /releases stuff a few days after
the release. That may be more delayed than usual because of Sharkfest.
But one fundamental question I have is: why use SVN to get the source of
an official release in the first place? I do that for latest-SVN builds
(when things are constantly changing) but for the official releases I
grab the tarball. It downloads faster (bzip2 :-)) and if I think I
messed something up I just "rm -rf" and untar it again.
