Re: telling devs about macports installation alternative - was Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-19 Thread ↪︎nudge
On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, at 09:45, db wrote: > On 18 Mar 2018, at 23:28, ↪︎nudge wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, at 23:08, db wrote: >>> Good to know. Unfortunately, although gitless is already in MP, the >>> developer doesn't mention it, but alas, HB >>>

telling devs about macports installation alternative - was Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-19 Thread db
On 18 Mar 2018, at 23:28, ↪︎nudge wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, at 23:08, db wrote: >> Good to know. Unfortunately, although gitless is already in MP, the >> developer doesn't mention it, but alas, HB >>

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-18 Thread Kastus Shchuka
It does not take much to run “port info gitless”… $ port info gitless gitless @0.8.6 (devel, python) Variants: universal Description: Gitless is a version control system built on top of Git, with simpler commands and syntax. Gitless can be used on any

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-18 Thread ↪︎nudge
On Sun, 18 Mar 2018, at 23:08, db wrote: > On 17 Mar 2018, at 20:48, ↪︎nudge wrote: >> Another option worth considering >> http://gitless.com/ > > Good to know. Unfortunately, although gitless is already in MP, the > developer doesn't mention it, but alas, HB >

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-18 Thread db
On 17 Mar 2018, at 20:48, ↪︎nudge wrote: > Another option worth considering > http://gitless.com/ Good to know. Unfortunately, although gitless is already in MP, the developer doesn't mention it, but alas, HB

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-17 Thread ↪︎nudge
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, at 23:49, Joshua Root wrote: > > I'll just note that git is not the only distributed version control > system, and others like mercurial and bazaar are often considered to > have better user experience. > ... Another option worth considering http://gitless.com/[1] Links:

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-17 Thread Chris Jones
Hi > On 17 Mar 2018, at 12:54 pm, Peter Hancock wrote: > >> On 16/03/2018 22:49, Joshua Root wrote: >> >> I'll just note that git is not the only distributed version control >> system, and others like mercurial and bazaar are often considered to >> have better user

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-17 Thread Peter Hancock
On 16/03/2018 22:49, Joshua Root wrote: > I'll just note that git is not the only distributed version control > system, and others like mercurial and bazaar are often considered to > have better user experience. GitHub is popular, and there is value in > that, but we'd be doing you a disservice

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-17 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:49:57 +0100, Joshua Root wrote: Dave Horsfall wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote: What should I be using now? Possibly git. And... On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Chris Jones wrote: Sounds to me like you are describing a git hosted software

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Joshua Root
Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >>> What should I be using now? >> >> Possibly git. > > And... > > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Chris Jones wrote: > >> Sounds to me like you are describing a git hosted software project, >> which you then clone and build where ever

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Chris Jones
On 16/03/18 13:35, Mojca Miklavec wrote: 16. mar. 2018 2:30 PM je oseba "William H. Magill" > napisala: To quote WIkipedia: "The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Mojca Miklavec
16. mar. 2018 2:30 PM je oseba "William H. Magill" napisala: To quote WIkipedia: "The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your way): - random

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread William H. Magill
To quote WIkipedia: "The name "git" was given by Linus Torvalds when he wrote the very first version. He described the tool as "the stupid content tracker" and the name as (depending on your way): - random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Arno Hautala
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 8:32 AM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Do its users know that "git" is English slang for "idiot" etc? Just watch > any English cop show on TV if you don't believe me (yes, I'm English by > birth). I'm pretty sure that was intentional. -- arno s hautala

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Ryan Schmidt wrote: What should I be using now? Possibly git. And... On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Chris Jones wrote: Sounds to me like you are describing a git hosted software project, which you then clone and build where ever you need it. Each clone is its own repostory,

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Chris Jones
Basically I'm after three-way master replication i.e. any box can be the "master" at any arbitrary time, if that makes sense; develop on Mac, test on FreeBSD, see what the Penguin busted, and any can be the "master" at that time, pushing sources back to the others (but the Mac will be the

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 16, 2018, at 03:11, Dave Horsfall wrote: > What should I be using now? Possibly git.

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread j. van den hoff
On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 09:11:56 +0100, Dave Horsfall wrote: What should I be using now? Here's what I have so far, which bogs down in the build pretty early due to 20 year old weirdness, I guess…. Hmmm... I'll take a look, but if there's something a bit more modern then

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-16 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Kenneth F. Cunningham wrote: Running "locate rdist" on the Mac is less than helpful, so is there a tool similar to BSD's "rdist"? Wow, that's old. 1998. Which sorta describes me :-) Back when I was working, we used a custom script called RDIST

Re: Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-15 Thread Kenneth F. Cunningham
On 2018-03-15, at 9:30 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Running "locate rdist" on the Mac is less than helpful, so is there a tool > similar to BSD's "rdist"? > Wow, that's old. 1998. Here's what I have so far, which bogs down in the build pretty early due to 20

Is there and "rdist" for Mac?

2018-03-15 Thread Dave Horsfall
me -s` etc, but I'd like to generalise it for all my software, not just this one. Running "locate rdist" on the Mac is less than helpful, so is there a tool similar to BSD's "rdist"? Thanks. [*] Don't ask... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."