On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Spurred by John, I wrote a paragraph about this issue on the web.
>
> Read it at the bottom of
>
> http://lyx.org/anoncvs.shtml
>
> and tell me whether it is completely foobar.
It's not foobar (IMO). Here's a diff with some changes I made.
--- anoncvs.shtml Thu Oct 8 08:53:49 1998
+++ anon.html Thu Oct 8 09:18:38 1998
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
CVS is a powerful method of allowing many develpers to work on the same
source code. This is possible because each developer checks out a copy
of the current version of the source code. Then each
-independently work on their personal copy of the sources. When they
+independently works on his or her personal copy of the sources. When they
have made changes, they commit them back to the CVS repository. The
CVS server takes care of things like trying to merge their changes
with those of others. When that doesn't work, the developer is
@@ -97,10 +97,10 @@
</p>
<p>
So that is how developers use CVS. To just try out the latest versions
-of stuff, you don't have to usually worry about all that. You will
+of stuff, you don't usually have to worry about all that. You will
just need to understand how to check out packages.
<em>Understand</em>, however, that you are looking at the latest and
-greatest version, and usually it might not even build, or it will core
+greatest version, and sometimes it might not even build, or it might core
dump instantly. That is ok, as the people working on it will fix those
problems before a stable release is made. So don't email them about
the build problems you find!
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@@ -117,12 +117,12 @@
</p>
<p>
LyX currently has these modules:
-<UL>
-<LI>lyx</LI>
-<LI>lyx0_12</LI>
-<LI>lyxdoc</LI>
-</UL>
-There will come one for reLyX later.
+<dl>
+<dt>lyx <dd> The latest development version -- highly unstable
+<dt>lyx0_12 <dd> A more stable version, based on the release version
+<dt>lyxdoc <dd> The LyX documentation
+</dl>
+A reLyX module will come later.
</p>
<p>
First you need to setup a few environmental variables. The first
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-This rises the question: How will I be able to commit my changes to the
+This raises the question: How will I be able to commit my changes to the
cvs repository?
The answer is: Initially, you can't. What you should do is to subscribe
to the developer's mailing list, and talk with us. If you have implemented
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Basically, it's just English changes. Also, I changed the list to a
description list to say which module was what.
Incidentally, I was going to ask this question before, but forgot to. Is
the lyx0_12 module going to become lyx_stable (or something like that)? Of
course, I don't know if CVS allows you to change a whole module's name,
but it seems like the logical thing to do, since 0.12 won't be 0.12 for
long. I guess you could also just start a lyx_stable module and retire the
lyx0_12 one...
-Amir
