Beman Dawes wrote:
I've spent several hours playing with the Subversion Boost repository that Troy Straszheim was kind enough to set up. Here is my initial experience:
* The downloads and installation of WxWidgets, Subversion, and RapidSVN went smoothly; everything worked right away the first try.
* The initial Boost checkout using RapidSVN worked right away the first try. However, there doesn't seem to be any RapidSVN documentation, so if you aren't already familiar with WinCVS or similar, you might have more trouble.
TortoiseSVN under Windows is much easier to use than RapidSVN. It integrates with most any Explorer-like interface ( I am using it with Powerdesk, which is an Explorer-like file manager with some extra bells-and-whistles).
***** Serious Problem ***** The initial checkout seemed to be working my DSL connection pretty hard, so I started Task Manager and monitored "bytes received". By the time the checkout finished, over 800 megabytes had been received! I tried a completely fresh CVS checkout for comparison; the received byte count was 12.5 megabytes. CVS uses compression (although you have to remember to turn it on); I couldn't find any mention of a compression option in the SVN docs, and a search of RapidSVN menus didn't turn up any way to turn on compression. We would need to solve this problem since 800 megabyte checkouts aren't acceptable for dial-up users.
My numbers are 288 MB for SVN and 96 MB for CVS. I have checked out only the latest Boost directory structure from both. That 3-1 margin is bothersome but is not the margin you reported. Is it possible that your numbers do not take into account the same files being checked out by each ?