From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6511c3dc6e1155c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GWindows and David Botton Date: 04 Oct 2004 20:48:38 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <2004100312401227544%david@bottoncom> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1096937336 8304 212.85.156.195 (5 Oct 2004 00:48:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 00:48:56 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4692 Date: 2004-10-04T20:48:38-04:00 Brian May writes: > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake writes: > > Stephen> In addition, CVS (not just FTP) is necessary when several > Stephen> developers collaborate on a project. SourceForge also > Stephen> supports mailing lists and bug/task tracking, which are > Stephen> very useful. > > Why use CVS for new projects now? Because that's what SourceForge supports. We need a server that won't go away, that many independent developers can use. CVS may be old, but it does the job well enough. > There are lots of alternatives to CVS which aren't as brain dead, > e.g. bitkeeper, subversion, tla/arch, etc. > > My favourite is TLA/arch as Is there an available, robustly supported server that provides TLA/arch access, like SourceForge does for CVS? > * allows for renaming/moving files/directories, while maintaining full > history, without resorting to ugly hacks. That would be nice. > * distributed repositories (meaning I can create my own repository, > commit to it, and synchronise upstream changes, even if I don't have > write access to the "official" server) That's also nice, if it works well. > * GPG signed repository updates (could be good especially important > when writing critical software; makes it harder for intruders to > tamper with the archive undetected). I'm not sure that's much better than ssh access. > Then again, this is getting off topic for this thread Not really; we do need to pick a server. > and this newsgroup... However, I use it for all my Ada software ;-). Ok, that's a good recommendation. -- -- Stephe