partnership with the Xouvert project?
Harold L Hunt II
huntharo@msu.edu
Wed Oct 29 04:02:00 GMT 2003
Jonathan,
Jonathan Walther wrote:
> Hi Harold.
Hello, hello.
> My name is Jonathan Walther, and I am the coordinator for the Xouvert
> project. I read your post on Slashdot yesterday, and it looks like you
> are responding to some of the same frustrations and desire for change
> that inspired the Xouvert project.
>
> http://xouvert.org
>
> Xouvert is using arch instead of CVS. We aren't doing this lightly; we
> see a clear benefit to it. One of the benefits is it's revision control
> discipline is more natural and makes it vastly easier to have a wide
> diversity of "branches" going at once, keeping in sync with each other.
Hmm... I have been looking into Xouvert since it keeps getting mentioned
to me... but I still can't find anything that indicates that arch works
(or would be easy to make work) on Cygwin. Could others please check
the status on arch on Cygwin?
> We would love to incorporate your changes, and give you and anyone you
> delegate full commit access to our revision control tree. Would you be
> interested in partnering with our project? I think we can both provide
> each other with a lot of positive benefits.
>
> No action is required on your part, Xouvert is working on our first
> release which should be soon. Like you, we are starting with XFree86
> 4.3 as our base. We believe once you go through the arch tutorial, you
> also will be sold on it's benefits for projects like ours.
I'm sure it has benefits, but it has to compile to be useful :)
Waiting for status of arch on Cygwin report...
Harold
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