I will soon be participating in a discussion at my workplace -- where over 30 developers write Perl scripts and modules as part of their responsibilities -- concerning migration from CVS to Subversion for version control. The sysadmin has already indicated we will be using Subversion 1.1 ('cause that's what comes with Debian stable) and that we will be using FSFS rather than Berkeley DB for the storage system.

But he hasn't reached a decision as to whether to have people connect to the server via svnserve or Apache DAV. I have no experience with either (I only have used Subversion on disk, not across networks) and the Subversion documentation cites pros and cons for both.

Without starting a flame war here, may I ask if there are Monks who have used both svnserve and Apache and can cite strengths and weaknesses of the two approaches?

Thanks.

Jim Keenan

2006-05-11 Retitled by GrandFather, as per Monastery guidelines

In reply to (OT) Subversion for Perl Development: svnserve vs Apache DAV by jkeenan1

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