On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Rene Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote: > m. allan noah wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Rene Rebe <rene at exactcode.de> wrote: >>> >>> No it isn't. >>> On 08.04.2009, at 04:14, m. allan noah wrote: >>> >>>> judging by the shell, I'd say thats really an Avision machine, very >>>> similar to fujitsu 4010CU. The avision backend is in need of a >>>> maintainer... >> >> Ah- I am sorry, I made an assumption. >> >> CVS is not perfect, hence the pending switch to git. But, CVS is not >> the cause of the backend problems. The cause is your insistence on >> using an external scm, and dumping huge patches into sane, which no >> one can debug. If you had used sane cvs all along, we would have had >> small, working commits, and we could have tracked down the problem >> sooner. > > Why the heck GIT? Some 6 months ago I brought this up and > most people seemed to like hg or svn. I know some weeks ago > this git thing brought up, but, well, git is a pain to work > with IMHO. Way to hacky and cryptic to use. Hg is way easier > to get used to.
We had a couple (admittedly small) discussions about it, and no one (including you) objected. I personally dont care what we use (i kinda like cvs :) but Julien likes git, so we will try it. If it sucks we will change. >> Brian- I am sorry your query opened such a can of worms, this sort of >> thing is rather irregular. Perhaps Rene can answer your questions, now >> that he is here. > > Well, the DM510 ID is in CVS, maybe even the last tarball > release. Can you look, and give Brian a better hint as to what to try next? allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
