cairo: an opportunity for advocacy?

[Magnus Therning]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 03:11:58AM -0600, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
[ remaining firmly off-topic ]
>Rambling digression follows:
>
>I was recently (~last fall) trying to get a friend of mine to use CVS,
>instead of the nothing he was currently using for version control.  He
>was familiar with it in general, and had a complaint about it as
>related to how gnome stuff was using it.  Presumably (I'm guessing a
>bit here) they have anoncvs access to it, and he figured CVS was crap
>because it wouldn't let him list the modules available; you had to know
>what you were checking out.
>
>It seemed a bizarre objection to me.  I mean, if I want you to access
>something, I'll tell you what the module is.  I have to tell you where
>the repository is anyway; it's not like this requires a whole new
>channel of communication.  Once or twice, I've needed to know a module
>name of something, but I've always solved that with that arcane tool
>called "ls".  So I guess maybe it's not so nutty as it appeared at the
>time.  And with branch names in a top-level namespace, it's even less
>nutty.

It's a situation I've run into a few times. People seem to assume that a
versioning tool would know what it's versioning. Very strange assumption
;-) Anyway, CVS does have support for listing the known modules: cvs ls.
It would even work on the GNOME CVS repo if they would use a more recent
CVS server :-)

/M

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