Re: Direct CVS Access to egcs sources

[Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>]

  In message < 19980115012422.08714@dgii.com >you write:
  > Since not everyone will have CVS access, (much of the world is
  > still UUCP connected, for example) it's my understanding
  > that snapshots will still be made.  Even if everyone *did* have 
  > CVS access, not everyone will want to track things that closely.
Right.


  > We do need some way to distinguish the CVS snapshots of any given
  > moment in time.
Absolutely.

The question is how fine grained to we want to be able to distinguish
a checked out tree.  Daily?  Every check-in?  No decision has been
made, so further comments/suggestions are welcome.

  > Now people have a choice.   If they're CVS enabled (and internet 
  > connected) and can crank out an update/build/test each hour, they 
  > can find out *exactly* when something broke or began working.  (If 
  > you're actually in that category, perhaps getting outside once in a 
  > while would do you some good. :-)  If they're  not, they can wait for 
  > the announcement of the snaps and grab them as always.  Of course, 
  > if they are CVS enabled and just choose not to track the release of 
  > the moment, they can still use CVS to get to the snapshots via the
  > tags that are applied as part of the snapshot process.
Yup.

  > Having CVS access also allows us to work out patch integration 
  > issues in a way that we know they'll apply cleanly to the master
  > sources, making the lives of those with actual write access to the
  > master repository easier.
CVS access also makes is easier on those developing patches -- unless
there's a conflict with a change made in the repository CVS will
automatically merge in changes from the repository with your local changes.

If there's a conflict it will be clearly marked and you get to go fix
it :-)

[ More cool things about CVS removed... ]

  > We have lots of choices and options available to us now.   If you 
  > want to stay with the snapshot/patch model, I understand that'll 
  > still be available.
Absolutely.  The plan is to finish the last 10% of the snapshot script
so that it can run automatically at a preset time every week.  Unfortunately
I'll be on the road again most of next week, so it might be a couple weeks
before I sit down to finish things up.

jeff