[PD-dev] planning to attempt to upload 0.38 to CVS

[Miller Puckette]

I wrote Guenter privately first, since I trust his opinion most of all!
I think he's leaving soon (if he hasn't already) for vacation though.

I think the "miller" branch is just a copy
of the code I maintain (and merge stuff into myself when appropriate.)
I think Guenter then merges this into Main branch... if this is so, then
I think there would now need to be both "stable" and "unstable" miller branches,
that would be 0.37 (with my bug fixes; cuttently 0.37.2) and 0.38test.
Then when 0.38 is ready I'd check it into "stable" and start putting 0.39
versions in "unstable".  But this might be a gross misunderstanding of how
to use CVS effectively.

I only adopt other people's code when I think I can maintain it... so for
instance I don't have the 64 bit extensions yet because I don't have a
64-bit machine to test them on.  So there will always be a need for something
like the current "main" branch.  I do sometimes try to merge changes from 
"main" back into my own branch -- but not all of them.

Another situation comes up often, that someone makes a feature that is
clearly needed, but which I think should be implemented differently.  An
example is the "print" hook in devel... I like it, but I want to do it in
a way that I think is cleaner... 

It would be nice if there were an easy way to document the intent of the
many branches that show up in CVS.  I think most of them are dormant, but
would presumably have to check them out and look at them all to know that...

cheers
Miller

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:40:16AM -0700, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>  
> This is great news!  I'll through in my two bits, but I think others 
> will have something to say about it.  I think that the MSP sources 
> should be the MAIN branch, then we can reserve other branches for 
> development projects, like IMPD.  Otherwise, I think that we will have 
> too many branches without much gain.  Also, Guenter has been merging 
> the MSP code into the MAIN branch already.  Since Guenter has been the 
> merge-master, I think he's the one to ask about how it should be done 
> going forward. 
> 
> If you want, I can also set up access lists to restrict write access to 
> the MAIN branch, at least until the transition to the CVS is complete.  
> But it might not be necessary since all changes are logged and 
> reversible. 
> 
> .hc 
> 
> On Jul 29, 2004, at 10:32 PM, Miller Puckette wrote: 
> 
> 
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I'm finally going to bite the bullet and try to check my Pd sources 
> > into 
> > the CVS site.  I'm hoping to do this without causing too much 
> > damage to 
> > the existing CVS tree.  Probably I'll just start a branch (named 
> > "msp-test" 
> > or something like that) and then, once I believe 0.38 is stable, 
> > copy it 
> > over to the "main" branch. 
> > 
> > My sources are way broken right now, so I won't be doing this until 
> > at 
> > least sometime next week.  So there's plenty of time for comments 
> > as to 
> > whether there's a better way to manage the tree... 
> > 
> > cheers 
> > Miller 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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