Hi Hazen: I have been surveying the further Subversion-related changes we have to do so that you can do our next release. These are divided into the following two categories:
(1) Changes to README.Release_Manager_Cookbook. I have just committed some preliminary changes which highlight current cvs areas which will need some investigation and change. For now, I have not filled in specific svn syntax, but I have given background information about how subversion does the equivalent task. As we both read deeper into the subversion book (downloadable from http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) and do some experimenting, we should be able to come up with the exact subversion syntax that works. (2) Changes to our scripts directory. To avoid "noise" from obsolete scripts I have moved all of those to the old directory. (The "svn move" command is really great and worth the price of admission just on its own.) Could you please review those changes to make sure I haven't put something in the old directory that you use during your release process? I grepped for "cvs" in the remaining files in scripts, and it appears only make_tarball.sh and rm-cvs-tarball-tags.pl will need adjustment for subversion. Note, during the release process we use throwaway tags which are created by make_tarball.sh and then thrown away again by rm-cvs-tarball-tags.pl once everything is working properly. From my reading, I believe you create tags by "svn copy" of the top-level trunk directory to a specifically named subdirectory of the tags directory at the top of the repository, and you remove those tags by "svn remove" on the directory you created. The svn book does say this process is cheap (everything done with the equivalent of symlinks) under svn so I think we should just go ahead and continue to use throwaway tags with the appropriate changes from cvs to svn syntax. I would appreciate you having a look at the tags section of the svn book, and letting me know what you think. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the Yorick front-end to PLplot (yplot.sf.net); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
