[mapguide-users] IMPORTANT: Do you use the SVN metadata feature on Windows?

[Jackie Ng]

Hi All,

In MapGuide Open Source 2.4, we included SVN metadata with most of the web
tier files for a MapGuide installation on Windows so that if you have a svn
client installed, you can "svn update" your files to pull down updates/fixes
for any commits to these files that have been made since the official
release.

However, due to subversion flagrantly breaking their working copy formats
with each new version it seems (they did it with 1.7 and did it again with
1.8), I have been forever hamstrung on svn 1.6 in all my build environments
on Windows just to support this feature. Users with svn > 1.6 have to
explicitly upgrade their working copies before they can start "svn
update"-ing their web tier files.

I also like to re-use my svn working copies as much as possible because
multi-GB checkouts of MapGuide/FDO isn't cheap and fat bandwidth pipes in
Australia doesn't grow on trees. The new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release throws a
monkey-wrench in my release plans (if we want to support this release, which
I want to) because they now use svn 1.8 which cannot be downgraded and plays
havoc with my new vagrant-driven build process for Linux.

So my question to you all is simply: Do any of you actually use this
feature? 

As you can probably see it is becoming a bit of a burden for me, having to
tie my build processes around a specific version of svn. I am strongly
considering removing this feature unless there is strong evidence that there
are people who are actually taking advantage of this feature.

- Jackie



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