> And I hope they will be gone once trunk turns into Gold. Then everything > is on sourceforge. Who would bother with checking out via CVS. Any > reasobable programmer has by now heard of SVN and will certainly be able > to install it on his machine and get the Axiom sources via SVN.
(a) Not all programmers are reasonable (me and linus, for instance) (b) CVS ships with all known linux distros (c) Savannah does not use SVN (d) SVN didn't install cleanly on axiom-developer (e) The project is widely available in stable "Gold" format For most of the world Axiom should "just work". No need to install anything. Sourceforge SVN is ok for developers but most of the world does not consist of developers. There is no need to know about SVN at all. Sourceforge SVN is just a local cul-de-sac. Aside from the fact that we can see local commits to private source trees it has no other special function. Indeed it could be argued that exposing private source trees enables the "cherry-picking" behavior. If these trees were not visible then changes would only be available as diff-Naur changesets. That appears to be a more desireable behavior. > Why should we bother an invest time in keeping Arch and CVS as mirrors? You don't need to bother with this. Maintaining Arch, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] are my concerns. Cliff's efforts to make tarballs of Gold for various platforms is a much needed effort. I don't believe that version numbering is of any interest outside our little furball of developers but who knows.... Tim _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
