Re: Xastir.lsm ?

From: Chuck Gelm (terhi.victor@logonet.com)
Date: Fri Jan 03 2003 - 00:30:36 EET

  • Next message: Curt Mills, WE7U: "Re: Xastir.lsm ?"

    Hi, Curt:

    Thanks.

     However, my main issue is that I do not want to keep track of
    development revisions. My main issue is that I want the 'stable'
    version release and the 'stable' files. My original
    opinion that I posted here, was that Xastir is developmental
    code. Your posts seem to confirm this opinion.

    :-|

    Happy New Year, Chuck

    "Curt Mills, WE7U" wrote:
    >
    > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Chuck Gelm wrote:
    >
    > > Heh, heh, heh. You think you can trick me into
    > > debugging someone's software. ? Think again. ;-)
    >
    > That's pretty good! I might have to borrow that sometime in the
    > future...
    >
    > > So, now I need RCS too! :-(
    > > I think that RCS is Revision Control System.
    > > Why would I need to keep track of someone else's revisions?
    >
    > Think of RCS as being able to tell you what has changed in _one_
    > file between revisions. Think of CVS as the same thing but able to
    > do it on an entire tree of files instead of just one. That's the
    > basic idea.
    >
    > If you have a large tree of files (like Xastir) and want to check
    > the status of your tree against the development tree, you issue one
    > command and it will tell you which files have changed. Issue
    > another command against a particular file and it will show you the
    > diff's. Issue another command ("cvs update") and it will make your
    > tree be in sync with the development tree. It's all pretty slick.
    > Just don't mess with the "CVS" directories and the bookkeeping files
    > contained within, or CVS will get lost. Easy enough to delete the
    > entire thing and bring down a fresh tree though in that case.
    >
    > For the developers it's even slicker, as we can be committing
    > changes to different parts of the tree at the same time. Trying to
    > change the same file at the same time gets tricky, as the first one
    > there gets the lock, and the 2nd is refused. #2 gets to figure out
    > how to merge his changes in with the first guy's before CVS will let
    > him check his stuff in. A race to the finish!
    >
    > I've been in races with a developer in Germany before in just this
    > scenario. Sometimes he wins, sometimes I do. And you thought
    > software coding was just an armchair sport... ;-)
    >
    > > Is there a Xastir.lsm ?
    >
    > Don't see one anywhere. We have an xastir.1 and an xastir.spec
    > though!
    >
    > --
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