Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-20 Thread OutBackDingo
Believe it or not, there is useful content on the web in Flash : Google [Flash filetype:swf site:nasa.gov] (without the brackets). There might be useful content, but that surely doesnt mean FreeBSD itself as a desktop isnt usable, I think saying using firefox/flash for flash based websites is

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-02-01 Thread OutBackDingo
I dont think I follow why people think its that hard to convert the FreeBSD src tree to some other RCS with history, branches and tags I have a FULL CVS conversion to a mercurial tree converted from a February 1, 2008 CVS snapshot. I also have a Full CVS converted to Subversion. And they have

Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today

2008-01-31 Thread OutBackDingo
I'm having to use mercurial. I'm not really enjoying it. works ok for small projects. BSD is a bit big for it. doe work foe offline editing, but loses all your BSD history. probably SVK is the way to go from what I hear. Im using mercurial on full FreeBSD trees, curiosity makes me ask

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-14 Thread OutbackDingo
I suppose you know about fromcvs. I also guess you know that I suggest using git instead of hg. Doesn't produce nasty large index files either :) cheers simon So would you think cvs - git - hg might be easier to accomplish ?? Since one of my goals is to update projects Ive done based

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-13 Thread OutbackDingo
All ive seen in FreeBSD hg branches is a current and a releng_6 Id like to see a complete tree converted if there is one out there. I do have some bandwidth to potentially host such a conversion for others. question is does one exist ? On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 17:48 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-09 Thread OutbackDingo
well thats kinda hard to do with CVS, though other revision systems such as mercurial, bazaar, git and perforce, even subversion do it well, there is also a mercurial respository for FreeBSD out there some where On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 05:36 +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: 2. If yes to #1 how

Re: questions on development(7)

2007-11-09 Thread OutbackDingo
On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:43 +, Tom Evans wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 21:49 +0800, OutbackDingo wrote: well thats kinda hard to do with CVS, though other revision systems such as mercurial, bazaar, git and perforce, even subversion do it well, there is also a mercurial respository