Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Subversion Repository Layout, or, How to Confuse People

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

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.