> 1. add the dependancies from centepede last known good back into CVS

+10000

I am on a dialup, and thus am offline most of the time. I always forget to get 
a new cent when i check out.  and get long network exceptions every time i 
build.


Quoting "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> So my in-laws are in town and a lot of family events are coming in 
> between me and writing software. In order to achive balance, for some 
> events I'm taking advantage of having a reasonably powerful Laptop (even 
> if it does run Win2k....it belongs to my employer who doesn't yet 
> support Linux on Laptops) and doing some work on POI.  (is there a point 
> to this...yes I'm coming to that)  I enjoyed listening to children's 
> poetry while I went through the patches for adding named ranges to POI 
> and watched out for Billy trying to run off (don't worry I wasn't the 
> only one watching for this).  Well in the process of doing this I made a 
> rather eggregious error, I forgot to get a copy of Centipede. 
>  Fortunately, I had an old copy of POI and was able to copy the 
> build.xml and tools directory, remove the scratchpad and examples and 
> use the old build with the new POI.  Well that went reasonably well but 
> I got to thinking...this was a rather easy mistake to make and it sure 
> doesn't appear to be documented anywhere that I can't do this.  So I 
> think we need to think through this again.  
> 
> I realize what you're trying to do Ken and I think its very cool, but 
> there are practical concerns at work here as well.  I propose we:
> 
> 1. add the dependancies from centepede last known good back into CVS
> 2. I will (if Ken is unwilling) make sure it is kept reasonably up to date
> 3. document the process of deleting and automatically downloading newer 
> versions of centipede.
> 4. your thoughts here.
> 
> -Andy
> 
> 


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