Dear Aaron, list,
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Aaron Sloman wrote:
> > Aaron, I'm sure you'd be able to appreciate the decentralized nature of
> > development, once the CVS way has been run in.
>
> In principle yes. In practice the work I do tends to be mainly based
> round trying to produce package that our students can easily install
> on home linux PCs to get the same environment as we provide on our
> suns and linux machines in the department. This often has to be
[...]
> At the moment very few others are working on this - and those who do
> are also very busy and may or may not have easy access to an
> environment in which they can play with rebuilding poplog. So they
> may send me code or suggestions instead.
Right, if there are few developers, and they are in constant contact via
email, we don't need CVS. The linux kernel is an extreme example of that
system.
> So at this stage use of sourceforge and CVS would just slow me down,
> including finding time to learn to use it when I am behind with many
> things.
>
Right, I understand.
> > P'haps we'd even be able to
> > write a front end to CVS for ved, just like emacs pcl-cvs. ( I'm not
> > certain it exists now ... )
>
> There is no Ved front end for CVS, as far as I know, but if it can be
> done in Emacs it can probably be done in Ved (which I use as a front end
> for all sorts of things, including reading and posting email, reading
> and posting news, interacting with latex, etc.)
>
Indeed. P'haps that'd be a good thing for me to try to do to learn the
poplog programming environment.
> I'll now use Ved to post this via our local news server.
>
I got it alright!!! :-)
Best,
Cherry.
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