[Freedos-user] details on free software

2007-07-20 Thread NISA BALAKRISHNAN
1.what are the various tools commonly used in free software or open source projects to track different versions? 2.what is a patch? how does it work?what is its complimentary tool? - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Freedos-user] details on free software

2007-07-20 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 7/20/07, NISA BALAKRISHNAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.what are the various tools commonly used in free software or open source projects to track different versions? mainly CVS and SubVersionthe later is more recent, the former, despite still being used, is coming into a deprecated state

Re: [Freedos-user] details on free software

2007-07-20 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, 1.what are the various tools commonly used in free software or open source projects to track different versions? A classic is cvs (concurrent versions system), which works fine, but a more modern alternative svn (subversion) is getting popular. The Linux kernel uses git (homepage

Re: [Freedos-user] details on free software

2007-07-20 Thread chris evans
1.what are the various tools commonly used in free software or open source projects to track different versions? Bugzilla, I believe. http://www.bugzilla.org/ 2.what is a patch? how does it work?what is its complimentary tool? Patches are used to when you need to lay off the bong. Usually