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[Axiom-developer] Re: cvs


From: Bill Page
Subject: [Axiom-developer] Re: cvs
Date: 26 Oct 2003 17:33:48 -0500

Tim,

Thanks for the notes about the database files.

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:28, you wrote

> re: conflicts
> 
> I deleted some files per requests by David and Camm
> and they've been uploaded again. Be sure to do
> cvs update before you do a cvs commit
> 
> The "update" makes sure that you have resolved all of
> the conflicts before adding your code.
> 

Ok, sorry. I did forget the update step. If I had done the
update would everything have authomatically been alright or
would I have had to manually delete my copy of the files
which you had separately deleted in order to avoid having
them re-added?

> I've forgotten this in the past but so far I've been the
> only one making cvs commits. I expect that we'll all be
> doing commits in the future so we have to be careful to
> do cvs updates first.
> 

Understood. I am amazed once again that the open software
movement has gotten as far as it has with CVS. But that's
dedication, I guess. But once one learns to cope with the
limitations of some complex tool, it is hard to give it up
even when something better and easier to use comes along...

> Despite the unforseen gaffe I'm quite pleased that you 
> went ahead and made independent changes. Provided we all
> carefully check our work I'm hoping to see more of this.
> 

You are absolutely right that I should have tested the
change to the database first (by re-compiling interpsys
again after changing the database files, obviously)
*before* uploading my changes to the CVS. Sorry.

The current interp/Makefile does not actually update
the database files. How do you plan to handle this in
the future? Would this normally be done as part of
every build? So does this always mean that we have to
build interpsys twice?

Cheers,
Bill Page.





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