[Difx-users] DiFX SVN repo {External}

[Geoffrey B. Crew]

I just created:

-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx  54M Mar 26 10:54 DiFX-2.5.2.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx  54M Mar 26 10:54 DiFX-2.5.3.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 105M Mar 26 10:54 DiFX-2.5.4.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 105M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.5.5.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 106M Mar 26 10:54 DiFX-2.5.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 120M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.6.2.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 123M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.6.3.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 120M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.6.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 102M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.7.1.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 103M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.7.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 124M Mar 26 10:56 DiFX-2.8.1.tgz
-rw-rw-r--. 1 gbc difx 124M Mar 26 10:55 DiFX-2.8.tgz

(I was wrong, I'd deleted some of the older or buggier releases.)  I can 
shove them into github or else some other place as directed...  This 
collection is 1.3 GB.

On 3/26/26 7:38 AM, Michael Dutka via Difx-users wrote:
> Geodetic users are still using older versions of DiFX (2.5.4, 2.5.5, 
> 2.6.2) so it would be good to have the older versions available as 
> tarballs somewhere.  On a more positive note I think we're closing in 
> on a method to use 2.9, but I still think having the old versions 
> available would be useful.
>
> Michael S. Dutka
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2026, 3:04 AM Adam Deller via Difx-users 
> <difx-users at listmgr.nrao.edu> wrote:
>
>     Hi difx-users,
>
>     Since we migrated to git some time ago, CSIRO wants to take the
>     DiFX SVN repo offline. They propose that the repo would be
>     disabled, ie moved out of the way so it can't be seen from the
>     web. It will be otherwise intact, just not visible. The proposed
>     change date is Wed 8 April 2026, so quite soon actually. (I just
>     heard about this today).
>
>     As far as I remember/understand the state of play, the SVN version
>     history for every file currently in git is available from the DiFX
>     git repo, but we don't have all the original tags (DiFX-2.1,
>     DiFX-2.2, etc etc) available as git tags. So I think the loss of
>     SVN would inconvenience anyone that wanted to get an older
>     version. We could probably mitigate that by getting tarballs of
>     all the older versions and sticking them somewhere. But do other
>     people have thoughts as to whether access to the old svn archive
>     would be problematic enough to push back on, rather than work around?
>
>     Cheers, Adam
>
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