Re: Please start a release branch

[Paul Edwards]

"Larry Jones" <lawrence.jones@eds.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.882.1043355465.21513.bug-cvs@gnu.org...
> > BTW, on the subject of file sizes, I compiled cvs 1.10 and
> > 1.11.x at the same time, about 3 months ago.  I just used the
> > default options on both.  700k for cvs 1.10 vs 2.3 meg for
> > cvs 1.11.x.  I will run "size" on them tomorrow.
>
> In that case, my guess is that 1.10 was built without client/server
> support, probably because the older configure script couldn't find

In actual fact I compiled both with --disable-client --disable-server
as I needed to as the easiest way to work around the library it was
trying to link with.

> something it needed whereas the newer configure script in 1.11 did find
> everything.  If you still have the source directories, it might be
> informative to compare the generated config.h files.

cvs1.10: 666786 + 17908 + 6220 = 690914
cvs1.11: 675334 + 17908 + 3184 = 696426
cvs1.11.1p1: 1024384 + 24752 + 17832 = 1066968
cvs1.11.2: 1429864 + 43600 + 18256 = 1491720 (stopped disabling
client-server)
cvs1.11.5: 1430912 + 44488 + 18256 = 1493656

794160 Oct 17 09:01 cvs1.10
802076 Dec 24 08:55 cvs1.11
1851384 Dec 24 09:04 cvs1.11.1p1
2496784 Dec 24 10:00 cvs1.11.2
2496348 Jan 24 19:39 cvs1.11.5

The 1 meg increase going from 1.11 to 1.11.1p1 is the most disturbing.
What sort of enhancement did I get for 1 meg, a doubling of code size?

The relatively small increase going from 1.11.1p1 to 1.11.2 is explainable
by client-server code being enabled.

BFN.  Paul.