Don't know who owns the server used by Boltwire... just a stab in the dark but it is most likely Bluehost? Some IPP's have setups for doing this as well using your own domain for control.
A new player is Google Code... Just saw a popular package I have used in the past that switched from SourceForge to Google Code. On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Markus <[email protected]>wrote: > > Ignored your hosting question. Bazaar could be hosted for example on > SourceForge or Launchpad. > > SourceForge links to http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd where the > following is stated: "The license must not restrict anyone from making > use of the program in a specific field of endeavor." > > Launchpad says: "It must not discriminate against persons, groups or > against fields of endeavour." > > BoltWire does this. So from the point of view of the Open Source > Initiative (and others) BoltWire is not open source. > > There are only two possibilities when it comes to 3rd party hosting: > forget it or use an open source license. > > Of course, private hosting is always possible but less > straightforward. > > Regards, Markus > > On Oct 7, 9:29 pm, Markus <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think branching was mentioned because you thought about creating a > > stable and a development version (which I think is an important idea). > > Consider having a stable version and a development version in two > > branches. Then you can make lots of fixes to the dev version without > > affecting the stable version. On the other hand you can still easily > > fix small errors that don't break things in the stable version. Let it > > be a typo or some easy-to-fix bug. > > > > This can be done without a revision control system, but it's probably > > handier using one. > > > > Though the real advantages I see are much easier testing of > > development versions and a better record about what has been done when > > and how – including code history. > > > > Regards, Markus > > > > On Oct 7, 12:58 pm, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Actually, I'm not too keen on having divergent versions of BoltWire. I > > > don't mind individual customizations, but don't want to try and > > > maintain or support different strains. So I'd be more inclined to use > > > a desktop version if it would help me. I will take a look at Bazaar > > > though, and possibly set something up for experimentation. > > > > > Cheers, > > > Dan > > > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Markus <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Maybe we should stop with the theory and just setup a revision > control > > > > system. Of course, Dan will stick with his way of development and > > > > releasing. In parallel, Dan and all others good tinker with the new > > > > system and then decide if it is an improvement or not. > > > > > > I am quite busy currently but that will probably change in some > weeks. > > > > So if anyone wants to set it up... > > > > > > Which one should we give a try? Subversion, Bazaar, Git? Personally I > > > > like Bazaar because it seemed very intuitive and easy to me when I > > > > used it. > > > > > > Regards, Markus > > > > > > On Oct 6, 6:54 pm, DrunkenMonk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > Do you recommend any for windows? And does it allow you to easily > zip > > > >> > up a version when you feel good about it. > > > > > >> The export (or similar) command lets you extract a certain version > (by > > > >> version or date). I think you can do the following with subversion > and > > > >> the zip command (normally I would use tar for my own projects, not > > > >> zip, sp I'm not sure how helpful zip is) > > > > > >> svn export <repository>/boltwire | zip <name>.zip > > > > > >> otherwise you'd have to do: > > > > > >> cd tmp > > > >> svn export <repo>/boltwire > > > >> zip boltwire boltwire.zip > > > >> rm boltwire > > > > > >> > The thing that attracts me > > > >> > most is sometimes I go up a dead end trail and have to retrace my > > > >> > steps before trying something else. Not always 100% successful, > but my > > > >> > software does have very good undo capabilities! > > > > > >> While I've never had the excuse to use it, I like the branching > > > >> capabilites, where you can copy parts of the project into a branch, > > > >> deveolpe the branch seperate from other branches that may create > other > > > >> bugs, and then patch in the branches into the main trunk when done. > > > > > >> But the "sod this, give me what I hd yesterday at noon" > functionality > > > >> is definitly the most used of subversions magic on my computers :p > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
