Sourceforge and Python

["Jürgen A. Erhard"]

>>>>> "François" == François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

[...]

    Francois> (By the way, thanks to those who shared their opinion
    Francois> with me, on this list.  I did start to use SourceForge,
    Francois> and it's OK so far.)

Yep, OK's the word... it's much to web-centered for my taste,
especially when you consider the prices for online time in these
parts...

But OTOH, it's a service that no-one else found necessary to provide
(yes, I know that there were Org which gave out CVS repos and
stuff... but none of those were as easy to get into as SF).

[... CVS weirdness  snipped]

    Francois> I feel a bit uncomfortable with new software (like CVS
    Francois> for me) when trivial bugs pop out so easily :-).

Misfeature, no bug ;-) And I heartily agree, CVS is not very
forgiving.

    Francois> Of course, one learns to avoid such errors, but I much
    Francois> prefer software when all bugs are corrected, trivial or
    Francois> not.

If we can agree that these things are not bugs, but rather
misfeatures... would you mind to rephrase that in terms of
"forgivingness"?  >;-)

    Francois>  When maintainers pay less attention about trivialities,
    Francois> it might be possible that our opinions differ, some day,
    Francois> about if something is trivial or not.

I know that feeling...

Anyway, I don't care very much about CVS anymore.  Why?  Well, saunter
over to

   subversion.tigris.org

and look around.  They're redoing CVS in a sense... now that seems
preposterous at first... but then I looked over the list of
developers, and I think this "just might work".  They're no
newbies...

First proof-of-concept release is planned for September... but we all
know how those things go, right?  ;-)

Bye, J

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       so we can make bigger and better ones." -- Bruce M Krawetz
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