Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Adam Turoff wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:14:17AM -0400, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: Dan Sugalski wrote: The decisions should be based on technical merit and general availability. I would include "available under a free software license" as part of the definition of "general

Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Dan Sugalski
Bennett, Perforce is a better source code control system than the source alternatives, and certainly better for the task we face than CVS. You're certainly not forced to use it. You can, if you rather, grab snapshot archives, rsync from the repository directory, or even grab a copy of the

Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:31:37PM -0400, Bennett Todd wrote: 2000-09-07-17:11:50 Dan Sugalski: That's certainly possible, but since the reason we're gathered here together working on trying to launch perl6 is a collective belief that perl5 has become unmaintainable for further development,

Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Michael G Schwern
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 01:49:36PM -0400, Peter Allen wrote: They have a catchy slogan for it. They call it the test -- code -- design development cycle. That sounds bad. I've heard about this style. Code now, refactor later. Its supposed to avoid the need for sweeping

Re: code repository

2000-09-07 Thread Nathan Torkington
Michael G Schwern writes: There's one solution, now that we have a nifty source control stuff. Branch like mad! Feature creep should be discouraged, but if a group wants to go off and work on something which isn't going to make it into the next release they can branch and play. That

Checkpoint

2000-09-07 Thread Nathan Torkington
So we're three weeks away from the end of this. I've been thinking about where we went right and where we went wrong (and in particular, what I would do differently if I had it to do again). The biggest thing is that I underestimated the volume of traffic. I never thought there'd be so many