JDK 7 moving to mercurial -- svn repositories

[Stephen J. McConnell]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 14:17 +0200, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Xiomara.Jayasena at Sun.COM wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > As many of you know the jdk 7 workspaces will be moving from Teamware to
> > Mercurial.  As of now we host svn repositories here:
> > https://openjdk.dev.java.net/source/browse/openjdk/jdk/trunk/
> > and
> > here:
> > https://jdk-jrl-sources.dev.java.net/svn/jdk-jrl-sources/jdk7/trunk/
> > 
> > Once JDK 7 moves to Mercurial we would like to know whether there is a
> > need to keep the svn repositories out there and if so forever? overlap
> > for sometime?  I am trying to figure out what would be best for most
> > people.
> 
> I don't think there is a need to keep them around, as you have the
> zip-ed/tar-ed source code downloads for people just wanting to fetch and
> build the 'latest' build, while a source code repository, for me at
> least, is the place where the actual work is happening.
> 
> And there can be only one of those. ;)

I agree completely.

Backups of legacy to take care of the past and move on to Mercurial for
the future.

Cheers, Steve.