On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 19:08:52 +1000
Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I've put the slides from my talks up (finally!)
> 
> http://www.robertcollins.net/talks/

I'd just like to take the time to thank Ron for his Arch/TLA talk.
I have been playing with it myself over the last couple of days and I
really like what I see.

As backgound, I have been using CVS for ages (poorly) but was never 
quite happy with it. The lack of atomic commits and the difficult of
enforcing policy were my main gripes but certainly not the only ones.

I have also had three attempts to use Peter Miller's Aegis which Peter
demoed at SLUG earlier this year. As much as I liked the ideas behind 
Aegis, I was simply not able to use if for my main projects which rely 
quite heavily on autoconf/automake/libtool. Aegis simply does not play 
well with these tools. It also lacks (out of the box anyway) any way 
of doing distributed development.

TLA however seems to be able to (almost) cover my needs. It has atomic
commits and it does distributed development. The one place where TLA
currently misses the mark is the ability to run scripts on commit which
can fail the commit if say the code fails to build. However, I spent
about 10 minutes hacking around in the the TLA code (very clean and
well organised) I came up with a patch will provide this facility. Now 
I just have to hope that Tom Lord et al will accept it :-).

So, thanks again Rob (and Tom).

Erik
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