On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Rui M. Silva wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 05:03:17PM +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > to me) it's impossible to ask cvs for diffs between arbitrary versions of
> > packages without having a tree locally installed ("cvs rdiff -r 0.7.9 -r
> > 0.7.11 abi" requires checked out cvs tree locally). Could you please publish
> > patches between versions too for all components AW uses?
> > -Vlad
> it may be so, but why don't you grab one a painfull download of the tree, the
>forever more only periodically fetch a cvs update?
>
> seldom has the cvs amounts greater than 100kB to update.
>
> but I agree that having a patch to jump from 0.7.10 to 0.7.11, for example, would be
>far more interesting than having the cvs tree or downloading the whole stuff, for
>people with low bandwidth connections.
Yes, please do provide patches.
> one thing you can do is go to a university, or another institution you have access
>with good bandwith, carrying a zip drive, or similar. download the cvs tree and take
>it home in the disk. that way, at home, all you'll need is a simple cvs -z3 update *
I just downloaded all *.gz files again - my connection breaks very often so
I don't think I would have been able to checkout abi from less than 10
attempts (you can't resume cvs checkouts :( ).
I still hope that you will provide patches - most mature open source projects
provide them.
> regards, rms
>
> --
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
> + So let's do it...?
>
Best regards,
-Vlad
