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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Tom Lord |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:03:52 -0700 (PDT) |
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <address@hidden>
> They're definitely not data.
> The only reason they exists is to track down the evolution of the
> project,
No, they're also useful for whole-tree changesets. Another use might
be source auditing.
> data is the information in a linux-2.4.22.tar.gz package,
> metadata is what is stored inside the arch archive.
Yes, and, while I am sure that owing to social and political factors
you may have some trouble getting inventory ids (whether explicit,
embedded, or whatever) into those tar bundles, but it's not at all a
bad thing to want to do. At least one other project (Emacs) is moving
that way.
> Storing part of the "tracking" code mixed with the data is
> certainly not clean.
You could think of it not as "tracking" code, although it can be used
for such, but also as a tool for making changesets possible.
> The reason this is obviously not data, is that an user downloading
> linux-2.4.22.tar.gz pure data package, will have absolutely zero
> benefits from the tagline embedded in the source, the tagline for this
> use will be pure _pollution_.
You can repeat that as many times as you like, of course.
-t
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Patrick Mauritz, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Samium Gromoff, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Collins, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Bruce Stephens, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Andrea Arcangeli, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Robert Anderson, 2003/09/27
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/27
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