Re: [Caml-list] OCaml development site

[Evan Martin <martine@danga.com>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 06:31:41AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> I'd put the releases there if it was easy.  If it took lots of time,
> making me go to a website and login somewhere (I don't usually work with
> a browser open, and would prefer scriptable command-line tools), I'd
> probably not do so as often.  Here's one brainstorm:

Seconded.

> I would not store CVS there since I use Arch.  I personally wouldn't
> store Arch stuff there either; I already have my own repositories.

Thirded.  (But for those unfamiliar with it, supporting arch is no
problem; it just uses HTTP [and sftp for committing].)

> As a developer, I want something I can drive from a command line and
> automate.  I don't mind having to log in somewhere if I can do it from a
> command line.  I definately don't want to have to log in to a web site
> to post stuff, check bugs, etc.

Agreed.  Sourceforge is really painful to use because of this.  I want
to type "upload --project=myproject --package=source foo-0.1.2.tar.gz",
not click through 15 slow HTML forms.

-- 
Evan Martin
martine@danga.com
http://neugierig.org

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