Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-27 Thread Arjen Markus
On 2009-03-26 19:26, Hazen Babcock wrote: > I'll take this opportunity to formalize my vote of ambivalence on the > move to git. If we decide to move that is ok with me, if we don't that > is also okay. I'm not enough of an expert on version control to have > much of an opinion, beyond that w

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-26 Thread Hazen Babcock
Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > :-). Well, we'll see. I was happy to see Hazen start an svn branch the > other day. I will be interested to see how that goes. Well I wasn't actually planning on taking it very far, so I don't anticipate too much trouble :). I'll take this opportunity to formalize

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-26 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Geoffrey, > What I mean by this, specifically, is that I will open a PLplot git > repo with > one of the open-source git hosting services. I propose not to use > SF for > this, because from reading the SF docs, I can't really tell that > they provide > the facilities both for tracking sv

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-25 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-03-24 22:55-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > > To that end, I'd like to ask Alan specifically, again, to identify with > > specificity, what you think the specific requirements for such a transition > > would be, from your perspective. > > > > My own view of

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-25 Thread Andrew Ross
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:58:57AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2009-03-24 22:55-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > > To that end, I'd like to ask Alan specifically, again, to identify with > > specificity, what you think the specific requirements for such a transition > > would be, from your persp

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-03-24 22:55-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > To that end, I'd like to ask Alan specifically, again, to identify with > specificity, what you think the specific requirements for such a transition > would be, from your perspective. > > My own view of this list would be, essentially: > > 1) Pre

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-24 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hello all, Geoffrey Furnish writes: > The main purpose in this post is just to sample the other developers, all > of you who are currently much more actively involved in PLplot than I am, > or even than I expect to be once I regain my stride, so to speak, and just > see if any of you would be

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-15 Thread Maurice LeBrun
On Friday, March 13, 2009 at 23:17:57 (-0600) Geoffrey Furnish writes: > I have two different code bases in my professional life that link to PLplot. > Both of them are locked into years-old versions of PLplot. About a year ago > I made the mistake of bumping one of them up to a modern PLplot r

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-14 Thread Hezekiah M. Carty
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > Alan W. Irwin writes: >  > My idea is to let other projects be the SF guinea pigs to work out >  > all the bugs in the freshly minted SF git support as well as to improve >  > the tools for conversion of a project (including all its histor

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-14 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-03-13 23:17-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > Alan W. Irwin writes: > > From my observations of projects that use git (such as the Intel X driver > > stack which includes at least the kernel, drm, mesa, X server and the > > Intel X driver), (3) is a huge issue. > > [...] Carl Worth > > (a wel

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Alan W. Irwin writes: > On 2009-03-13 10:17-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > > [...]The main purpose in this post is just to sample the other > > developers, all of you who are currently much more actively involved in > > PLplot than I am, or even than I expect to be once I regain my stride, > >

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2009-03-13 10:17-0600 Geoffrey Furnish wrote: > [...]The main purpose in this post is just to sample the other developers, > all of > you who are currently much more actively involved in PLplot than I am, or > even than I expect to be once I regain my stride, so to speak, and just see > if any

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Werner Smekal writes: > I often commit "unfinished" work for only one reason - not to loose it. > My laptop is old, the harddisk may get corrupt. I often spend some hours > work and don't want to loose it. With git I can commit more often to my > local repository which is fine. But if my lap

Re: [Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Werner Smekal
Hi Geoffrey, thanks for the explanations. I often read about git or mercury, but never really understand how this should work. Now I understand it better, still I have one question: I often commit "unfinished" work for only one reason - not to loose it. My laptop is old, the harddisk may get

[Plplot-devel] SF adds support for git, anyone interested?

2009-03-13 Thread Geoffrey Furnish
Hello all, Greetings after a long sabatical. I've been lately trying again to get re-engaged with PLplot development. One of the first things I'm trying to get done, is to merge the python branch that I had worked on about 15 months ago, and get that stuff onto trunk. Then there is some more p