On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 21:00 -0500, John Labenski wrote: > Sounds like an interesting project. However, I am not sure exactly > what people are to do with their branches as I would hope that useful > additions and certainly all bug fixes should go back to the main > version.
If people fix a bug using it, they can have bzr produce a diff or bundle of their changes to send to other bzr users: perhaps even somebody who then applies it to the official CVS. I've set this up as my project will require some (small) changes to wxLua that are not applicable or appropriate for other people. Having a bzr branch lets me keep my changes while still benefiting from the changes in CVS without a whole lot of manual patch management. > In terms of wxLua going to Subversion, yes, someday. I'm sorry that > I'm dragging my feet on it, but I am no expert in CVS, but I can make > do. I am suspicious of svn since it appears as though you download the > whole repository with a checkout which I see as a waste of disk space > and when you grep for things you're inundated with garbage from the > old versions. This is not the case. A subversion checkout contains no history. What it does do is keep unmodified versions of every versioned-controlled file in a .svn directory for doing fast local and off-line diffs without having to talk to the server. This basically means the cost of a checkout is very slightly over twice the size of the data stored in it. (Also, bzr branches (rather than checkouts) do include all the history, which is a requirement of its distributed nature - but you can do a "lightweight" checkout which is similar to an svn checkout, in that it requires you to be connected to make any commits.) > I guess I could make a script wrapper for grep to avoid > the .svn/ dirs. In any case I'm not convinced that svn is any better, > except that you can use the http protocol. Subversion is bags quicker, has atomic commits, can version things more than just files, better handling of binary files, more efficient server-side storage, finer-grained and more flexible authentication and permissions, vastly superior history tracking, cheap branching and is still actually being maintained. And that's just a start. B. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ wxlua-users mailing list wxlua-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxlua-users
