>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Out of curiosity, does the LCFG server know anything about the >> revision control system, or is the change management >> functionality handled entirely externally? Paul> It is external. I think it is possible to write conditionals Paul> which depend on the release version, but that doesn't seem Paul> like a good idea. Of course, the individual aspects (headers) Paul> are version controlled separately, so it is possible to pull Paul> back a particular aspect if you screw something up, but the Paul> important thing here is to create a stable, labeled Paul> configuration point for the whole site. We found that if you actually built some logic into the server, you could use revision data as a proxy for an independent time variable, and write logic that consumes and modifies the repo based on it. (This is the topic of our paper this year) I am pretty sure that it is necessary for the server to actually have some notion about the revision data... -nld _______________________________________________ lssconf-discuss mailing list lssconf-discuss@inf.ed.ac.uk http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lssconf-discuss
