Re: RFD: CVS or Arch?

[Andy Wingo]

Dunno if I indeed replied to this already, but I've been working a
little on this front... 

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003, Andreas Rottmann wrote:

> [...] I've started adopting arch for my work on guile-gobject, and now
> have left the newbie state (at least I think so ;-)) and feel
> confident enough with it to propose it as primary SCM for the upcoming
> guile-gnome project.

I have some practical questions about using it that I'll ask to you on
the list, because they might be of wider interest once people get going.

 1. I guess all files should have the same id's in each archive (i.e. my
    gw-glib-spec.scm should be the same as yours). Where would the
    canonical arch repo be held, so that we can do this properly? I
    would like for this to be not on an individual's machine, but
    somehow on savannah or gnu.org. And when this happens, how do
    existing repos (mine and yours) change from the old tags to the new?

 2. I'm having problems with inventories. It could be because my tla is
    old (1.0.6 -- I'll update as soon as I can, maybe this weekend), but
    I have problems committing changes when I build in the source tree.
    I don't want to build elsewhere because to run uninstalled, the
    bindings need things from both source and build trees, and it's
    easier if they are the same. But it manifests itself by complaining
    about each file that's not tagged, and that's a lot. ATM if I want
    to commit, I have to make distclean first, and that sucks.

> * guile-gnome-common: arch category hosting common infrastructure,
>   such as the autogen-support.sh stuff, common m4 macros and the like

There really isn't all that much here. I would only break that apart if
it's trivial and doesn't introduce too many problems.

> I still have to play around a bit with arch meta-projects, but from
> what I can see, they are perfectly suited for release managment.

What a nightmare though! Imagine releasing 20 different tarballs. The
feelings it stirs are not in my heart, they're in my stomach ;)

cheers,

wingo.