new idea for moonbase

[Kok, Auke]

Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> it just come to my mind (when doing svn setup):
> Why not using anonymous svn for lunar update?
> It would save the download time and bandwidth by downloading only updated 
> files.

three reasons mainly:

1) requires additional programs installed
2) requires a firewall that passes thru svn traffic
3) if the firewall doesn't allow it, fallback http checkouts are much slower

that is really suboptimal unfortunately, so not worth the hassle.

Auke