[MINC-development] MINC and Subversion

[Andrew Janke]

> We use a simple SVN with apache setup - no SSL, just plain apache
> authentication, and with a separately maintained set of accounts
> (htpasswd) for write access. Not the most secure solution, but
> hopefully enough for our purposes.

Thanks for the info.  So essentially you have two types of users,
those who can see the svn repo and those who cant.. :)  a .htpasswd
method with svn doesn't allow for more fine-grained control does it?
(the LDAP thing is out as the BIC still uses NIS from what I know.
IRIX and GNU/Linux still won't hold hands and play nice)

> > 1. keep on burying our heads and leave it in CVS
> > 2. install SVN and lots of acronyms on feeble.
> > 3. Use a third party.
>
> I've used google code for a different project and quite like it - but
> all repositories have to be world readable, which might not be what you
> want. I suspect that the desire to keep certain repositories private
> will mean that the do it yourself solution is still best.

Most interesting, care to hand out the address so that I can have a
poke around to see what a small project would look like?

I suspect however than an external site will not really ever be
completely sanctioned if only for political reasons.  ie: it would be
nice if the SVN address of MINC still included bic.mni.mcgill.ca in it
somewhere...

The option that does present itself here though is to have a local
webDAV repo at the BIC that is only open to those with passwords (ala
.htpasswd) and then use a post-commit hook to synch it to an external
"read for all" repo on google code or the likes.  Might be messy
though.

I should also point out that the only code that will migrate to this
new svn thing (if it comes into being) will be code that is on
packages (ie: stuff that is to be released). if things are not to be
released then either we make another separate local repo or continue
to use CVS for these projects.

This to my mind is a good way to separate what is and what isn't for
publc consumption from the BIC.



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