Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-28 Thread David Fraser
Daniel Carrera wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I want to write a proposal on implementing a replacement for CVS so I have been spending some time learning about this stuff. I asked at the Darcs mailing list (I didn't say I was from OOo or anything :) about its scalability. This is what they say: a)

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-27 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, I'm wondering what this discussion is about. * what actual problem we do have with the current CVS setup now, which of these problem do we really need to adress urgently ? * indeed distributed SCM tools are interesting and we should watch the development there. But if we talk about these as

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-27 Thread Daniel Carrera
Martin Hollmichel wrote: I'm wondering what this discussion is about. * what actual problem we do have with the current CVS setup now, which of these problem do we really need to adress urgently ? None, really. I'm just experimenting with something interesting. * indeed distributed SCM tools are

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hhhhmm... it looks like Thunderbird didn't like your email (see below). But nevermind, I checked the list archive. You suggested monotone. It looks like Monotone and Darcs are the top choices. I couldn't get Darcs to install (stupid Solaris) because I couldn't get the Haskell compiler to work

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:31 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: Hi all, This is just one of those Daniel is curious questions :-) What are your thoughts on CVS? Most OOo developers are Sun developers. What SCM do you use at Sun? CVS is sort of the de-facto standard in the FOSS world, but I

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On 4/26/05, Jens-Heiner Rechtien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Subversion is certainly not a bad choice. It's a bit difficult to compile/install, but it's possible to find precompiled binaries for almost all platforms. I use Subversion for all my personal projects. It's very nice. Kohei

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Subversion is certainly not a bad choice. It's a bit difficult to compile/install, but it's possible to find precompiled binaries for almost all platforms. What do you think of the de-centralized SCMs ? I kind of like the idea of just grabbing my own branch and

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Subversion is certainly not a bad choice. It's a bit difficult to compile/install, but it's possible to find precompiled binaries for almost all platforms. What do you think of the de-centralized SCMs ? I kind of like the idea of just

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread David Fraser
Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, Daniel Carrera wrote: Jens-Heiner Rechtien wrote: Subversion is certainly not a bad choice. It's a bit difficult to compile/install, but it's possible to find precompiled binaries for almost all platforms. What do you think of the de-centralized SCMs ? I kind of

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 23:09 +0200, David Fraser wrote: Martin Hollmichel wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: I kind of like the idea of just grabbing my own branch and playing with it, and doing my own commits, without having to touch the central server. And then if it turns out I produce

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Ken Foskey wrote: It seems that you got the idea of having childworkspaces :) Correct me if I'm wrong, but childworkspaces still touch the central server, they just operate on a private branch... Yes, you are correct. The concept of the new SCM tools are a fundamental shift in the way you work.

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: Incidentally, I took a second look at Darcs, and actually it's just as easy to install as monotone. That is, there's a self-contained binary available for most platforms. I just missed that link the first time. Incidentally, here's a link:

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-26 Thread Daniel Carrera
Daniel Carrera wrote: Darcs did not ask me to generate an RSA key like Monotone. I wonder if Darcs comes with other means for signing packages. I'm sure there must be something. Maybe they have hooks to GPG :-) I like GPG. Yup, it uses GPG. Cheers, Daniel.

[dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-25 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hi all, This is just one of those Daniel is curious questions :-) What are your thoughts on CVS? Most OOo developers are Sun developers. What SCM do you use at Sun? CVS is sort of the de-facto standard in the FOSS world, but I also know that it's a bit old and doesn't do the things that modern

Re: [dev] Thoughts on CVS?

2005-04-25 Thread Kohei Yoshida
On 4/25/05, Daniel Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... On a related topic, if I wanted to play around with a SCM, which would you recommend? (open source svp). Some times I wish I had one. Right now, when I work on a program, I keep doing a 'cp -r'. This is not my personal opinion, but Linus