Tom Lane wrote:<br /><blockquote cite="mid:7430.1202408095@sss.pgh.pa.us" type="cite"><blockquote
type="cite"><blockquotetype="cite"><pre wrap="">From a relative time to install from source standpoint it looks like
this:
CVS - 10 minutes (no external dependencies)
GIT - 8 minutes (no external dependencies)
Mercurial - 1 minute (depends on Python)
Subversion - 4-6 hours (depends on a multitude of packages and will only work with specific
versionswhich you learn about the hard way at build time).
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For those on platforms where SVN comes prepackaged, this might not be
a big problem (except maybe for pulling in packages they don't want).
For other developers this kind of thing could be a showstopper</pre></blockquote><br /> As with anything you are likely
tosee on this issue, the above seems highly suspect as hard numbers. In my own case I believe installing Subversion is
inthe 10 minute time frame as well unless you get into linking it with Apache and such which becomes unfair. Setting up
anyof these solutions to be securely accessible from the network takes longer than 10 minutes, so the numbers listed
canonly be for local installs, and not all systems have Python. I think think Solaris 8 does?<br /><br /> In terms of
pickingan SCM candidate, I don't think "time to install from source" is a legitimate concern. Installing from source is
great,but if the package needs to be installed from source, it is not well enough supported by the community to be
worthusing.<br /><br /> Cheers,<br /> mark<br /><br /><br /><pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Mark Mielke <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@mielke.cc"><mark@mielke.cc></a>
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