On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:12:11 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>If we (the IBM-MAIN community, the most valuable source at all) >>would adopt faster to WIKI's (as a knowledgebase) and/or >>SourceForge (sorry to CBT) our loved OS would be much more >>attractive to newbies. > >Why? Why wouldn't it, instead, make our jobs more difficult? > I have contributed to both CBT and Open Source. In my experience, using CVS is a whole lot easier -- especially when trying to get updates into code originated by someone else. CVS and the SourceForge model facilitates contribution from many and quick updates. It would be "difficult" in the sense that many of us would have to learn something new and it would take time and effort to build the infrastucture. I think that was the poster's original point, that there are "better" ways to do things but inertia may block adoption. >>It is'nt hard to maintain a WIKI or to use CVS or Subversion. > >Neither is integrated with existing configuration control mechanisms. What "existing mechanisms" are you referring to? >So? The CBT tape was never intended as a cross-platform distribution >medium. If I developed cross-platform code under MVS I would look for >a different venue. But for work that is strictly MVS, I don't see how >CBT isn't a better choice than sourceforge. I don't understand the "cross-platform" argument. There is nothing about distributing code in this way that is dependent on the target platform. I'm intrigued by the ideas expressed in the original post and also some of the responses. I'm a gray haired MVS sysprog and for the last 5 years I've also been doing Java/Web integration with the mainframe. I've found many excellent tools and technologies (Eclipse, CVS, Unit testing frameworks, etc) that could be useful in the MVS world. The adapatation to MVS has been slow. An interesting perception that these are "PC" tools. Several responses in this thread mentioned that the "PC world" can't run or isn't an audience for the contents of the CBT tape. I don't understand that comment, as the CBT tape is already publicly available on the web. -Rob ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
