Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-30 Thread Frederic Lehobey
Hi, On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:38:27AM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > It appears that we have about 10 Axiom developers, with 10 different > SCM (Bill: Darcs; Tim: Arch, CVS; Gabriel: SVN; me: patch, Arch (never > again, Mercurial/SVN/SVK under study), Antoine: SVK; Ralf: Arch; Mike: > CVS?, ...).

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-30 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
"David MENTRE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hello, | | 2006/3/30, Antoine Hersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > What about SVK( http://svk.elixus.org/ ), it seem to be based on | > Subversion plus distributed a la Arch | > It is based on PERL a more reasonable dependency that Haskell. | | I am on SV

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, 2006/3/30, Antoine Hersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What about SVK( http://svk.elixus.org/ ), it seem to be based on > Subversion plus distributed a la Arch > It is based on PERL a more reasonable dependency that Haskell. I am on SVK's mailing list for several months now. SVK is interesting

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Antoine Hersen
Hello, What about SVK( http://svk.elixus.org/ ), it seem to be based on Subversion plus distributed a la Arch It is based on PERL a more reasonable dependency that Haskell. I have never used it( RCS cover most of my need), so it is just presenting another option. Antoine Hersen __

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Bill Page
On March 29, 2006 9:24 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > | What exactly do you advocate and why? > > SVN. > > In many aspects that I care about directly for working on Axiom, > I find it a better tool than tla. > darcs. I find it a better tool tha

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Gabriel Dos Reis
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] | What exactly do you advocate and why? SVN. In many aspects that I care about directly for working on Axiom, I find it a better tool than tla. -- Gaby ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.o

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> Thanks - that would definitely bypass the problem when next I get the > time to work on Axiom. Would it be possible for you to merge all the > Windows work back into CVS? I'll bring it up with Bill who maintains that branch. --t ___ Axiom-developer

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
cool. I'll look into the vmplayer solution. --t ___ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
> > You have a problem with an open source tool. > You have the source. > You have the skill. > Fix the code and send the patches to arch. Why waste my time on something that goes against what I think is the best policy and that I believe doesn't need to be done? > It is, after all, exactly what

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
> These are hard problems (at least for me) and it all takes time. You're a hard worker! I recently ran LTK 0.78 on Windows with GCL 2.7.0 but the latest 0.8x defeated the GCL compiler. One other interesting note is that following a lead in a message on C.L.L I recently tried running Debian with

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> I am also saying that Arch is useless on Windows. > > Believe me, if you don't like tla on Unix platforms, you would abhor it > under Windows. The only way I was able to undo the mess it made of my > file system under Cygwin (exacerbated I admit by a network domain change > which stuffed up) wa

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> Just as a friendly suggestion over the back garden fence, rather than > trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by making Axiom X based on > Windows, wouldn't your time (as a well regarded highly productive and > uncommonly competent lisp programmer) be better spent either: > >i) pickin

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
> The lack of upkeep on the server copy of a branch seems to be > completely independent of the issue of which maintenance > system to use. I'm arguing precisely against the shunting aside of separate subprojects to which Arch's alleged capabilities contributed. I see both processes as therefore

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
PS. > the X-on-windows effort, Just as a friendly suggestion over the back garden fence, rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by making Axiom X based on Windows, wouldn't your time (as a well regarded highly productive and uncommonly competent lisp programmer) be better spent

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
> > The only "subprojects" in the axiom project are specific > > branches that have been created to separate various > > developers who planned to work on separate threads. These do > > not impact the main branch in any way until the work is > > complete and I merge the two branches. For exampl

RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Tim. > The only "subprojects" in the axiom project are specific > branches that have been created to separate various > developers who planned to work on separate threads. These do > not impact the main branch in any way until the work is > complete and I merge the two branches. For exampl

Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread root
Mike, > I want to say that tla/GNU arch is not at all looking good as a source > control system (it's problematic on Windows and looks like it is barely > alive as an on-going project) and I would suggest dropping it as a tool > for the Axiom project. I'm currently working on projects that use CV

[Axiom-developer] RE: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Mike Thomas
Hi Ralf. > what do you want to say by your comment? I want to say that tla/GNU arch is not at all looking good as a source control system (it's problematic on Windows and looks like it is barely alive as an on-going project) and I would suggest dropping it as a tool for the Axiom project. I am

[Axiom-developer] Re: GNU Arch - was patches

2006-03-29 Thread Ralf Hemmecke
Mike, what do you want to say by your comment? Ralf On 03/29/2006 06:47 AM, Mike Thomas wrote: Hi all. Why don't you use tla? See the section "Criticisms" on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Arch and then the amount of work going on at: http://arch.sv.gnu.org/archives/gnu-arch