SVN all gone?

[wolgade]

Hi,

I used to work with the SVN version of MH for the past months. I realized, that there were no more updates to SVN since the release of RC1. I also noticed, that you changed the location of the source and that I could get a zip file there. Any chance to use SVN (or any similar tool) to keep up to date with your work? Downloading the whole stuff after a minor change seems to be a waste of bandwith to me.

[duststorm]

Our svn source control has become read-only because we are migrating to mercurial for the development of A9. You can find the new source history on https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehuman

The website just offers a link to the source tarball as a convenience function for those that occasionally want to grab a development snapshot and can't be bothered with figuring out how a (distributed) version control system works, it's not recommended to use for frequent downloading at all. The description text next to the source download button contains a link to https://bitbucket.org/MakeHuman/makehuman which is what you will want to check out.

If you get a hg client, you can do pretty much the same thing you were doing with svn before. The website http://hginit.com offers a great introduction to the mercurial DVCS application, should this be new to you.

The google issue tracker has been discontinued as well, it's replaced by our new bug tracker at http://bugtracker.makehuman.org which should keep an overview on development and different source trees.
We are using the quiet between releases to work on a new infrastructure and methodology to support future development, as well as documenting and promoting the official A8 release. This is why development activity is not very high (except for some bugfixes, the current hg version does not differ much from what is available in svn). Lots of things are happening behind the scenes, though.
We'll try to properly document and announce all these changes once the new infrastructure has been completely set up and A8 is properly out the door.

In the future these changes will lead to better, more stable software, and an easier way of working for the developers. Everyone wins.

[wolgade]

Thanks for your detailed reply. As a matter of fact I wasn't aware of Mercurial SCM. Will have a look at it these days. How about a link to http://hginit.com/ in the download section of the website. That's where I was looking for the replacement for SVN.

[duststorm]

How about a link to http://hginit.com/ in the download section of the website. That's where I was looking for the replacement for SVN.

That would probably be a little too much info on one page. But we will surely include it in a "development" page in the docs section.