Attic gone?
Stefan Reinauer
stepan at openbios.org
Thu Jan 6 15:39:00 CET 2005
* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman at lnxi.com> [050106 21:01]:
> "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
>
> > bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to
> > sourceforge all the time is getting annoying.
>
> If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option.
> As it is I have extreme problems with their free license.
I wrote some scripts doing daily snapshots a while ago when OpenBIOS was
using bitkeeper.
> Stefan how has using arch for openbios been working?
I'm happy with it, some points:
* It combines the flexibility, distribution and enhanced functionality
(like decent merge algorithms) of bitkeeper and the open source
development model and licensing.
* There are .rpm and .deb packages available for all major
distributions, clients for windows are also available.
* It works with wide spread communication layers such as ssh, ftp or
webdav
* Due to it's distributed concept there is no "main" tree except through
definition. There's no difference between a local repository and a
remote one.
* Syncing from/to a CVS tree is easy as long as there's only one sync
direction. The available software even intelligently pairs CVS
checked in files into changesets. Patrick Mauritz set up a local
freebios2 arch tree like this a while ago on openbios.org. It was a
matter of less than an hour iirc.
* After the arch people were strictly focussed on a clean design they
also take usability a lot more into regard these days.
* To make life easier for OpenBIOS developers we have a tight howto
available at http://www.openbios.org/experience/gnuarch.html
All in all it is no harder than cvs or bk if you are new to it.
* Repository browsing for the openbios arch repositories is available
at http://www.openbios.org/cgi-bin/viewarch.cgi
It works a lot like the well known viewcvs.
* Unlike bitkeeper I have full control over my source trees sitting on
my own machine with a reliable high speed connection. No dependency on
bkbits or sourceforge.net resources/bandwidth.
If you have concerns that should be met, tell me.
Stefan
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