Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Tom Hayward
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Tom Russo wrote: > A counter point here. As a developer using all four of these systems (CVS, SVN, Git, and Mercurial), I have trouble understanding your arguments for most of these points... > These days, Xastir is not undergoing vibrant, constant development.

Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Jason Godfrey
Even though I've only sent in a few patches, I thought I would throw in my .02. At work we use SVN. I don't have any complaints about SVN. However, I and several others have been using git on top of SVN. Git's cheap and easy branching is wonderful. In my experience it's one of those things that yo

Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 09:30:28AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > > Git allows working offline, named changesets, sending patches between > developers and merging, then deciding which to push out later. It's also the > one used by the Linux kernel

Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Tom Russo wrote: I read the same newsletter you did. Nothing I saw there implied that they would break our CVS repository, but that was the one thing I was concerned about. If they do break it by moving it to SVN I'm cool, but I'll be miffed if they move it to Git unbidden

Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Tom Russo
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 07:16:59AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Curt, WE7U wrote: > > > SourceForge put out a newsletter today and requested people to upgrade to > > their latest SourceForge S/W. I just hit the "Update" button

Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Sun, 16 Sep 2012, Tom Russo wrote: Sorry Tom! I should have researched the subject more. I read the same newsletter you did. Nothing I saw there implied that they would break our CVS repository, but that was the one thing I was concerned about. If they do break it by moving it to SVN I'm

Re: [Xastir-dev] SourceForge upgrade

2012-09-16 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Curt, WE7U wrote: SourceForge put out a newsletter today and requested people to upgrade to their latest SourceForge S/W. I just hit the "Update" button for both Xastir and SmartPalm, so there may be temporary interruptions as the projects are moved/upgraded/whatever to t