On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 01:49:37PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Lan Barnes wrote:
> >Please, this is not meant personally. It's my philosophy, not a slap at
> >you.
>
> That's fine. Just realize that this applies force which pushes away
> from SVN. I want students to spend as much time as possible learning
> the concepts and as little time as possible learning tools. Thus, I try
> to use popular tools which can do the job (Java, Eclipse, CVS, etc.).
> However, if a tool can't do the job, it doesn't matter how popular it is.
>
> Several people have asked on the SVN lists about fine-grained access
> control for CS classes. None have come up with a particularly good
> solution.
>
> For this semester, I'll probably limp along with SVN. I don't want to
> teach CVS to students; it's a dead end for them.
>
> However, I'll probably poke some of my more advanced students to get a
> couple of them to buff up the Mercurial plugin so that i don't have this
> problem in the future.
>
> -a
>
You may have brought up another limitation of SVN 1.x, lack of granular
security. I say "may" because I'm not sure that was ever a goal
(starry-eyed OSS developers etc etc) and because, using it personally, I
never really looked for it.
I'll make the same offer to you I made to Stewart: IF you're willing to
go for it, ans IF I don't have to use C++ (or BASIC or any other
"gutter" language), I'll throw in with you. Heck, I can always write
documentation.
Same caution I gave Stewart, too.
--
Lan Barnes
Linux Guy, SCM Specialist
Tcl/Tk Enthusiast
Our Founders expected that Christianity -- and no other religion --
would receive support from the government as long as that support did
not violate peoples' consciences and their right to worship. They would
have found utterly incredible the idea that all religions, including
paganism, be treated with equal deference.
- James Dobson's Family Research Council
Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan
of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by
inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the
plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion
was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to
comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the
Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every
denomination.
-Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography
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