[PATCH] Re: picking a date for subversion migration

[Andy Dougherty]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Allison Randal wrote:

> The new repository is at https://svn.parrot.org/parrot.
> 
> People using an svn client can change their existing checkouts over to 
> the new repository with the 'svn switch' command. Running from the main 
> directory of the checkout, that would be:
> 
>    svn switch --relocate https://svn.perl.org https://svn.parrot.org

I ran into a couple of issues: 

    1.  perl.org also honored http:// as well as https://.  parrot.org
    only allows the https:// form.  (This is an issue for me because my
    build of svn doesn't understand https because, even after several
    hours of hand-editing configure scripts, I couldn't get the build
    system to find openssl consistently.  (Some parts would;
    other parts wouldn't.  Long boring story.)

    2.  svn.perl.org also supplied an rsync mirror.  The obvious attempt
    to run the same command on svn.parrot.org fails.  I don't know what
    the plan is.

    3.  svn.perl.org provided regular snapshots.  svn.parrot.org appears
    not to do so.  I don't know what the plan is.

I've patched docs/gettingstarted.pod to use the new address and put in 
some NOTEs about things that need checking by someone who knows what's 
going on.  

Please note that I am definitely *not* trying to say whether or not
parrot.org should provide the snapshots, http://, and rsync access.
I fully recognize that each is an additional maintenance burden,
and that it is reasonable to decide that the cost of such additional
maintenance might outweigh the benefits.  I am only trying to help fix
the documentation to accurately reflect reallity and to learn what steps
I need to take if I want to check out the parrot sources.


--- docs/gettingstarted.pod	2009-01-19 10:23:56.000000000 -0500
+++ docs/gettingstarted.pod.new	2009-01-30 07:59:17.000000000 -0500
@@ -22,45 +22,48 @@
 There is a web interface to the subversion repository, in case you just want to
 browse the source.
 
-L<http://svn.perl.org/viewcvs/parrot/>
+L<https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/>
 
 =item *
 
 The easiest solution is to grab the most recent snapshot of the Parrot SVN
 repository. It's a tar-gzipped download of a recent checkout of Parrot, updated
 every six hours. You can find it here:
+{{NOTE:  This currently doesn't work.}}
 
-L<http://svn.perl.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz>
+L<http://svn.parrot.org/snapshots/parrot/parrot-latest.tar.gz>
 
 =item *
 
 Even better is the option to use SVN, which gets you the very latest copy of
 the Parrot distribution. The procedure for this is:
 
-    svn checkout https://svn.perl.org/parrot/trunk parrot
+    svn checkout https://svn.parrot.org/parrot/trunk parrot
 
 =item *
 
 If you're one of those rsync folks, you can access the repository with:
+{{NOTE:  This currently doesn't work.}}
 
-C<rsync -av --delete svn.perl.org::parrot-HEAD parrot>
+C<rsync -av --delete svn.parrot.org::parrot-HEAD parrot>
 
 =item *
 
 If you're using git-svn, you should check out just the latest version. First:
+{{NOTE:  This is untested.}}
 
-C<< git svn clone -s -r HEAD https://svn.perl.org/parrot >>
+C<< git svn clone -s -r HEAD https://svn.parrot.org/parrot >>
 
 =back
 
 The above instructions are also on the Parrot website:
 
-L<http://www.parrotcode.org/source.html>
+L<http://www.parrot.org/source.html>
 
 =head2 Now that I've got Parrot, what do I do?
 
 Now that you've downloaded Parrot, you probably want to try it out. All you
-need is Perl 5.8.0 or later, a C compiler (any ANSI C compliant compiler
+need is Perl 5.8.4 or later, a C compiler (any ANSI C compliant compiler
 should do - if you find one that doesn't work, please report it to us), and
 some reasonable form of C<make>. To do this, follow these three easy steps.
 
@@ -213,6 +216,7 @@
 As such, a better solution would be to submit your patch to RT, the request
 tracker system that maintains bugs and patches for the Parrot project. To
 visit RT, go here:
+{{NOTE:  Needs to be updated for Trac }}
 
 L<https://rt.perl.org/rt3/>
 

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    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu