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Episode 538: Roberto Di Cosmo on Archiving Public Software at Massive Scale

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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How Do We Archive Software?

When you go to archive.subversion.com, you end on a very simple landing page that has just one simple line where like Google, okay, you will type in what you are looking for. This allows you to look through 180 million archived projects, actually not inside the source code, but you are searching in the URLs of the project that you're cutting. And when you find one project that is interesting to you, it doesn't matter if it was from gate or from sub-directional, from the cool, from the tab or from the packet, et cetera. Everything is presented in the same uniform way, which is very familiar to a developer because it is designed

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