Hi Tobias,
>before you answer and flame away, take a minute, and think about
>what I just said...
(to see the "said" look at the tail of that message)
<NOTE: It's a sarcasm, not a flame, and I thought for a day before. Should
be good enoght :) >
>I would not be surprised if the same people are the ones that
>think they need locking, when they do not.
I would not be surpised if it were the same people who think that to tag the
text files as binary in not a good solution, and to change the tool is not
an available option... I might even be the same people who work in the
strange environment (wintel-weenies). It could be even the same people who
think that CVS is supposed to be useful, not just a monument of concurency.
They even say that by making the locking properly they would promote the
concurency while every little kid knows that it is good enougth to just
ignore the locking and avoid to talk about it. Moreover, they also think to
interface and integrate CVS with other tools, and even push the buttons
instead of enjoing typing long commands manunally. Well, they should be
sorry for themselfes, because...there is no such API here...
BR,
Jerzy
The first thing they don't teach you at school: "Never say never".
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-----Original Message-----
From: Tobias Weingartner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Noel L Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, February 24, 2000 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: CVSROOT/cvsrc
>On Wednesday, February 23, "Noel L Yap" wrote:
>>There's currently no global .cvsrc. There's been discussion about it, but
>>AFAIK, noone has begun any work on it. Personally, I would find it
>>useful, but
>>we work around the issue using symlinks and copies (the global .cvsrc
>>doesn't
>>change much anyway).
>
>This sort of thing (to me at least) is indicative of a group of people who
>do not understand CVS, do not understand how it works, and are being spoon-
>fed in order for them to be able to work with CVS. The type of people that
>I tend to refer to as wintel-weenies.
>
>While a global configuration method may well be a good thing for CVS, I'm
>still hoping that the world will become a better place, people will try to
>understand the tools they use, and in general will not be scared to
>actually
>read a manual, or a web page, that describes the possibility of having
>their
>own .cvsrc file.
>
>Then again, I would not be surprised if the same people are the ones that
>think they need locking, when they do not. In some sense, a cheap parting
>shot, but before you answer and flame away, take a minute, and think about
>what I just said...
>
>--Toby.
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