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Repository access via the SVN protocol

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Graeme Geldenhuys

Hi,

Would whoever is running the Free Pascal / Lazarus repository consider enabling the SVN protocol as well. Currently only the HTTP protocol is enabled. (example: GCC has both protocols enabled at svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/ or via http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/) I have also heard that using the HTTP protocol has a higher server overhead associated with it and is normally slower compared to the SVN protocol, though I know how handy it is via a firewall.

The reason I'm asking:
It seems that somewhere our ISP in South Africa is blocking or filtering something, which causes us not to be able to access the http://www.freepascal.org/svn repository. It is very frustrating to download huge nightly builds every day (7Mb for Lazarus and 20Mb for FPC). This also make it really difficult to help development on these projects and generate patch files, as the nightly builds do not contain the .svn directories.

Every SubVersion server I could find using the SVN protocol seem to work fine, the same cannot be said for the HTTP protocol.

I really hope, whoever is in charge of the repositories will consider this request.

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Graeme Geldenhuys
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 24 lines
Hi, Would whoever is running the Free Pascal / Lazarus repository consider enabling the SVN protocol as well. Currently only the HTTP protocol is enabled. (example: GCC has both protocols enabled at svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/ or via http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/) I have also heard that using the HTTP protocol has a higher server overhead associated with it and is normally slower compared to the SVN protocol, though I know how handy it is via a firewall. The reason I'm asking: It seems that somewhere our ISP in South Africa is blocking or filtering something, which causes us not to be able to access the http://www.freepascal.org/svn repository. It is very frustrating to download huge nightly builds every day (7Mb for Lazarus and 20Mb for FPC). This also make it really difficult to help development on these projects and generate patch files, as the nightly builds do not contain the .svn directories. Every SubVersion server I could find using the SVN protocol seem to work fine, the same cannot be said for the HTTP protocol. I really hope, whoever is in charge of the repositories will consider this request.

I am in charge.

Is there a problem to use SSH ? SSH is enabled.
I could create an account that allows read-only access via svn+ssh.

I'd rather not use plain svn, only as a last resort.

Michael.

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