Re: cooperate or die

Garrett Rooney wrote:

> semi-regular emails trying to convince us to drop what we're doing and
> work on some nebulously defined project to merge svn and arch aren't
> going to do much more than annoy people.

From what I understand of arch's architecture the high-level is mostly
shell scripts. Would it be possible to, instead of merging them, use arch
as a sort of wrapper around svn?

Basically, arch could handle things like generating csets from multiple
changes by using svn internally.

Maybe a good and politically correct approach is to have the arch guys
work on using svn as a back-end. SVN is a good storage model (esp. with
Apache as a back-end server).

The arch parts can handle the merging and cset generation on SVN
repositories. I think this approach has a nice logical separation to it.
The arch guys can get all of the benefits of SVN and in the process, maybe
tweak the command line client by adding a few commands to help arch shell.

One problem with this is portability. arch seems to only run on UNIX like
systems where SVN is portable to non-UNIX environments like Win32. I'm not
exactly sure how portable arch can be made.

L8r,
Mark G.

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Received on Mon Mar 17 07:35:17 2003