[PD-dev] cvs admin question ...

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On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> � wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > I think there is no reason for thomas to fear (man cvs). The CVS is a
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> i do not know a way to explain fear.
> but i don't think "man cvs" will help. (nor does "man freedom")
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> > place for collaboration, not a marketplace for externals. If Thomas
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> aren't there projects there that are already read-only for other devs ?
> why ?
> what makes tom schouten's approach better (sorry ts that i keep abusing
> your way of usage: no criticism intended): overwriting any changes made
> to the CVS via a daily cron-job ?

I think there is nothing better with tom shouten's approach.
It is a great achievment having Thomas' code directly in CVS,
but the way it is done could have been better.

Anyhow, who cares,

Guenter



> > doesn't want to collaborate, then why does he want to put his externals
> > there ?
> > Did you talk him into that, or is it his own decision ?
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> we talked him into that.
> we are currently restructuring development at the iem (this is: using
> collaborative development of projects with cvs-alike systems).
> we try to minimize administrative overhead: for us of course; but also
> for other people who obviously felt the need to put "iemlib" into the
> CVS (which i think was a good idea) and who now have to manually (or
> scripted or ...) sync it with the releases.
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> > There is also no reason for his paranoia, obviously he did not
> > understand what the purpose of the devel version of pd is.
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> i told him so
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> > Since the existance of CVS there has not been a single case where we
> > had problems.
> >
> i know
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> still, why should it not be possible for tm if it is possible ?
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> mfg.asd.r
> IOhannes
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