Re: [Firebird-docs] Our use of CVS

2011-07-10 Thread Lester Caine
managing a clean master copy and controlling what goes into it. This may become academic since while cvs to hg conversion is currently simple, work is ongoing on the mirror link. svn<>hg simply works. Having said that, the nice side by side view of local an

Re: [Firebird-docs] Our use of CVS

2011-07-16 Thread Lester Caine
directly to the interbase/firebird driver code on PHP - just to prove a point. Although I'm planning a php_firebird fork of that finally. I'll drop an hg mirror of the useful sections of the Firebird repos at some point ... actually I had some sections at one point, but I'm r

Re: [Firebird-docs] TODAY and shorthand casts

2011-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
strip some hacking from the site :( I'd forgotten to strip the user register option when I restored it last ) -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquiry

Re: [Firebird-docs] TODAY and shorthand casts

2011-10-04 Thread Lester Caine
d in a commit, you use the 'CURRENT_x' literals. If you want to timestamp each element as it is processed, then you use the original 'NOW' timestamp. The legacy shortcuts to yesterday,today and tomorrow are probably questionable, but need to be retained for BC reasons. -- L

Re: [Firebird-docs] Upload server problems?

2012-10-30 Thread Lester Caine
t; Cheers, > Norm. > > PS. I did check back through all my emails, no passwords mentioned on > the SSH matter, just a request for my public key. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http:

Re: [Firebird-docs] Upload server problems?

2012-10-31 Thread Lester Caine
showing my ignorance here ;) - is the IP address changing ... AH Helen has spotted then same thing! -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquiryso

Re: [Firebird-docs] Langref - Expressions/Constant

2016-02-02 Thread Lester Caine
an evening read ... if you can afford a copy at something over $2000 :( -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop

Re: [Firebird-docs] Improve TOC and searchability of Firebird Language Reference

2016-05-01 Thread Lester Caine
int, but I get pigged off with the PHP searches now passing the buck to google to provide results and the mess that brings. A search mechanism using firebird built into the website offers a lot of possibilities including much better handing of translated pages ... -- Lester

Re: [Firebird-docs] Consider migrating to GitHub?

2016-12-18 Thread Lester Caine
projects that broke perfectly good CVS repositories into a series of GIT repo's still have no tools to put the hwole back together again. PHP still has not plugged all the holes in it's GIT process and often gets cross contamination, so until there IS a

Re: [Firebird-docs] Consider migrating to GitHub?

2016-12-19 Thread Lester Caine
and moving a perfectly functional repository does not need git messing it up when it does not need the compromises git introduces. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL - Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve -

Re: [Firebird-docs] ATTN committers: SourceForge to terminate CVS support on November 30th

2017-10-18 Thread Lester Caine
omplete at the time I was having to live with the change ... In my book GIT may have filled holes in CVS operations, but it also lost key facilities CVS was good at. The resulting project ports are now difficult to work with as a whole where one has dozens of isolated module which on CVS one could cre