From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA08787; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:52:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA08767 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:52:41 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from heinrich.complete.org (gatekeeper.excelhustler.com [68.99.114.105]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3RIqdjq020106 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 20:52:40 +0200 Received: by heinrich.complete.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DA5721E4F; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:53:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:53:20 -0500 From: John Goerzen To: "Brandon J. Van Every" Cc: caml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] CVS labeling (was Re: Proposal: community standard library project) Message-ID: <20040427185320.GA17717@complete.org> References: <1083065342.8280.49.camel@ares> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 labeling:01 2004:99 brandon:99 showstopper:01 tagging:01 labeling:01 0700,:01 permanent:98 checking:01 necessarily:02 wrote:03 library:03 erroneous:04 cvs:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:13:50AM -0700, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > You could collect statistics on how often a given project's CVS > repository will actually build, and how often it works even if it > builds, but the latter is a permanent grey area. What's a showstopper Of course, there are several erroneous assumptions (not necessarily yours) that are going into this conversation: 1. That checking out HEAD from CVS will produce the latest development version of the software, or a version more recent than the latest "release"; 2. That HEAD is where development occurs; 3. That HEAD is more volatile than a "release". cvs does support tagging and branching and I'd think it not too unusual to have a "main" branch and a development branch, and make new commits on the main only when devel is ready to release. > Does CVS have a labeling capability? i.e. mark all files in the > repository at a certain point, so that files can easily be recalled at > that point later? If it's easy to do, then you might cajole open source It does, and is easy. -- John ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners