I have been learning to use git for local development. My own little projects do not have but 1 contributor but it helps me keep track of changes.
http://sourcefreedom.com On Nov 29, 2011 2:37 PM, "Jason Stephenson" <jstephen...@mvlc.org> wrote: > Quoting Wolf Halton <wolf.hal...@gmail.com>: > > Jason, >> >> Standing on the shoulders of those who made the install targets >> distributed >> with EG2.1, I hacked together my own additions to target Ubuntu 11.10. It >> seemed to work alright except for shoe-horning in Postgresql-9.1. I am >> sure >> it is more trouble than it is worth to do this for production. I am >> planning to do something like that again working from an alpha of EG on >> the >> Ubuntu 12.03 LTS Alpha Flight. It remains to be seen if I can do it, but >> at least working toward the next LTS version, I will not be doing >> something >> totally useless. >> > > Well, now you're drifting into dev-list territory, but let me share a > suggestion that the general community might also find useful. > > Rather than using an alpha tar ball (2.2alpha1, I assume), I'd suggest you > install Evergreen and OpenSRF from git clones of the master branches. It is > much easier to keep up with changes that way and updates are a snap. > Learning to use git is practically a requirement if you want to join the > developer community, even just to work on installation instructions for a > new distro/release. > > Git makes it super easy to share your patches/diffs with other developers > who can try them out, and then get them merged into the main repository. > > HtH, > Jason > > /me runs off to investigate adding additional VMs on his development host. > > > >> >> -- >> This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com >> Advancing Libraries Together - http://LYRASIS.org >> >> > >