Re: Xastir.lsm ?

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Hi, Curt:

Thanks.

 However, my main issue is that I do not want to keep track of
development revisions.  My main issue is that I want the 'stable'
version release and the 'stable' files.  My original
opinion that I posted here, was that Xastir is developmental
code.  Your posts seem to confirm this opinion.

:-|

Happy New Year, Chuck

"Curt Mills, WE7U" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Chuck Gelm wrote:
> 
> >  Heh, heh, heh.  You think you can trick me into
> > debugging someone's software. ?  Think again. ;-)
> 
> That's pretty good!  I might have to borrow that sometime in the
> future...
> 
> >  So, now I need RCS too!  :-(
> > I think that RCS is Revision Control System.
> > Why would I need to keep track of someone else's revisions?
> 
> Think of RCS as being able to tell you what has changed in _one_
> file between revisions.  Think of CVS as the same thing but able to
> do it on an entire tree of files instead of just one.  That's the
> basic idea.
> 
> If you have a large tree of files (like Xastir) and want to check
> the status of your tree against the development tree, you issue one
> command and it will tell you which files have changed.  Issue
> another command against a particular file and it will show you the
> diff's.  Issue another command ("cvs update") and it will make your
> tree be in sync with the development tree.  It's all pretty slick.
> Just don't mess with the "CVS" directories and the bookkeeping files
> contained within, or CVS will get lost.  Easy enough to delete the
> entire thing and bring down a fresh tree though in that case.
> 
> For the developers it's even slicker, as we can be committing
> changes to different parts of the tree at the same time.  Trying to
> change the same file at the same time gets tricky, as the first one
> there gets the lock, and the 2nd is refused.  #2 gets to figure out
> how to merge his changes in with the first guy's before CVS will let
> him check his stuff in.  A race to the finish!
> 
> I've been in races with a developer in Germany before in just this
> scenario.  Sometimes he wins, sometimes I do.  And you thought
> software coding was just an armchair sport...  ;-)
> 
> > Is there a Xastir.lsm ?
> 
> Don't see one anywhere.  We have an xastir.1 and an xastir.spec
> though!
> 
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