Hi Charles, > Actually, most development teams try pretty hard to keep a single repository > for source code...you start running into way too many problems otherwise, > and this is exactly what CVS is designed to do. Yes, makes sense (especially from what you and Mike wrote).
> typically this means two (or more) primary development sites, each > with a large number of users, at which point there are some commercial > solutions that provide the features necessary to do this. They cost big > $$$, but when you look at the daily payroll for this sort of design team, > the $$$ is worth it. True. Even though I've seen R&D teams in large corporations, working in different countries, send the changed files to some poor soul, who did a "manual diff" on them (no, that wasn't me ;-)) > Probably the best way to do this on a permanent basis would be to have > scripts on the SF site create a a "mini" CVS tarball for you...just write a > script that grabs the CVS tarball, extracts the files from your branch, and > e-mails (or otherwise transfers) the files to one of your systems... Sounds good. That's the way I'm leaning right now - having SF as my "primary" repository, and just keep my local one for backups. I'll surely look into this, since it sounds like I could what I wanted without losing "control" over my sources. Thanks for the insight. > > It would get even more complicated if > > somebody submitted a patch to the SF CVS, but since I haven's received any > > patches or source changes yet, I'm not too worried about that yet. > > Saddly, you probably don't have to worry about this, but IMHO, the whole > point of using SF for LEAF, and one of the big goals of the LEAF project, is > to encourage contribution by anyone, hopefully stemming the tide of "me-too" > type releases, where our would-be developers/contributors release a slightly > modified version of a package or distribution, rather than getting their > changes incorperated into the base... Makes sense, and it would be wonderful if that worked. But really, not everybody writes code, and that's fine. I've got some great feedback from users (about new features or bug-reports), so I shouldn't complain. I was just a little surprised that no suggestions for changes in the actual source code ever came in. But then, I've never sent such a suggestion myself either... Thanks for the feedback. Expect the CVS to "grow" by 300k sometime soon ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
