On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:12:31PM -0400, Josh Sled wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:00:35PM -0400, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > | On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:14:46AM -0400, Dan Widyono wrote: > | > So. > | > > | > Is it possible for me to jump in, pull SVN down, install SVN + SVK on my > | > workstation, diddle away using my own local personal branch, submit > frequent > | > patchsets to the list, and when all is said and done, submit my branch > | > somehow to the central repository for safekeeping? > | > | If you figure out (or if someone knows) how to preserve history in > | that last step, I'm very interested to learn. > | > | However, even if you lose the history, there are some advantages to > | that method, and I will probably be moving to adopt a similar process. > > Chris, you expressed some hesitation about SVK before; I confess I've > not had time to adequately look at it, myself. Pros? Cons?
I'm pretty frustrated with SVK at the moment. I've put about 4 hours effort into installation alone and I haven't succeeded yet. It doesn't even seem like I'm close. I'm trying to write a HowTo for installing SVK on FC4 (preview at www.codesifter.com/svkOnFedora.html) but it's obviously not worth anything unless it works. It seems it will happily install without all the dependencies, just not run. It thinks it can auto-install required modules, but some of them fail to build and it just blindly skips them. *Some* of the modules are available as rpms, but even after installing 250 (no kidding) rpms I don't have a working install. I wonder if my troubles are because I'm using version 1.05. I'm not sure if I should try an older version or push forward. The documentation is pretty lousy compared to CVS, SVN and git/cogito. And so far, when things have gone wrong, the error messages have not been suggestive of the corrective actions. It's especially frustrating since git/cogito took 30 seconds to install (yumable), about 4 hours of understanding the *concepts* by reading the (nice) docs, and I had the full repo imported and I was branch-hopping in seconds. I even had time to peruse the surprisingly concise code (just a handful of c files and scripts). They've both been work, but so far, SVK has been mind-numbingly frustrating, while git/cogito was enlightening and inspiring. Honestly, the only reason I'm still trying to get SVK to work is that I'm so darn stubborn! :) (plus, if this ends up being the recommended approach, I want to have a HowTo for new devs.) Assuming I get it to work, I'll probably have more to say then. -chris _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel