[Python-Dev] alternate pserver access for python CVS?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
>>Hmm, but how is CVS read-only access different from downloading
>>a tarball ? (except maybe for the different bandwidth they require
>>in case of updates)
> 
> CVS read-only makes it simple for anybody who has CVS installed to
> check out a particular branch.

Ah yes, forgot about that option.

> Downloading a tarball means you have to know how to set up a CVS
> repository, which most CVS users never need to do these days.  (It's
> easy, but I probably wouldn't be able to do it myself without having
> to study the manual for 15 minutes, and I've done it before!)
> 
> Downloading a tarball also means that each time you want to get a
> newer version, you have to redo the steps to set up the repository.

Hmm, I was thinking of the tarball that you get by doing a clean
checkout and then zipping everything up. I believe that's what
Martin is doing.

> Using a CVS mirror based on the tarballs means that only the mirror
> administrator has to do that, and other users can simply hook up to
> the mirror and use "cvs update" like they are used to.

Side note: the CVS repository is already available as nightly
tar ball from: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/python-cvsroot.tar.gz
(roughly 52MB)

>>Perhaps we should setup an rsync server on python.org which allows
>>getting at the current snapshot incrementally ?
> 
> That would only make sense if it makes sense to have multiple mirrors,
> which I'm not convinced of.
> 
> (OTOH we might make the CVS tree available through FTP and HTTP and
> RSYNC, and then all Python mirror sites would automatically have the
> data so all they need to do is run a CVS server on top of it if they
> want to, and they have instant mirroring.  This might cause some
> mirrors to complain about the amount of data, though -- I don't know
> how big th eunpacked repository is.)

I was thinking of making the clean checkouts available via
FTP, HTTP and RSYNC; not the complete cvsroot repository.

But you're right: if someone wants a special branch of the
CVS tree then setting up a CVS mirror makes more sense.

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