Off topic (was Re: GNUmail on NetBSD)

[Philippe Roussel]

Le 14/04/2012 01:34, Riccardo Mottola a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I think this is a bit off-topic. Also, I imported lusernet to the nonfsf
> project, mainly because of the gnumail and pantomime affinity.

Good to hear.

> Philippe Roussel wrote:
>> Le 13/04/2012 20:15, Ivan Vučica a écrit :
>>
>> Well, GAP projects are small enough to be in a single tree but I would
>> vote for any setup not using cvs, even if I have to learn a new tool.
> I don't like all this version control program fiddling, that happens on
> the main gnustep repo, because my vote counts little, but on gap where I
> work since years and am co-leader, I don't want the hassle.
> 
> If at all, I may migrate it to SVN because we use gorm file which are
> directories and CVS is a bit cumbersome with them. However I long
> maintained GAP apps on platforms where I was never able to get a running
> SVN (not even that exotic... mac 10.2 for example). Since I will
> probably drop some of them, I might change my mind.

Subversion would be an improvement imho.

> The number of developers and general patching activity is not that big
> in GAP... up to little ago I was quite able to manage all the patches by
> myself...
> 
>> Another potentialy beneficial move would to be use text files for the
>> UIs. I find it annoying to not be able to diff 2 versions of a gorm
>> interface but maybe that's just me :o)
>>
> Well, since I essentially gormize all apps I import into GAP, I think we
> are on different routes here. GORM files have drawbacks, especially with
> version control systems, but they are the main reason WHY I am working
> on GUI apps at all...

Hey, I did say I like Gorm as a tool to easily build UIs. I just don't
like gorm files and their binary format, the occasional binary
incompatibility, the burden to localise (duplicate each gorm file or
manually override each label in the code, nice and simple...) and things
like that.

As I have nothing better to propose I'll shut up now :)

Philippe