OK, my last non-coding related post for the night. This is from last
week's NTK (www.ntk.net) and I thought it was interesting, particularly
the link to Codeville.
Brian
>> TRACKING <<
sufficiently advanced technology : the gathering
No self-respecting Thinker Of Hard Thoughts these days is
without their own Deep Theory Of How To Do Version Control.
Now that Subversion has hit 1.0, it's time for the truly
neophilic to start scouting around these folk to find
something radically better than just a mended CVS - and then
foolishly entrust all their source to it. CODECON this week
showcased a couple. For the brave, there's the Cohen
Brothers (Bram "BitTorrent" and Ross) with Codeville.
Codeville's novelty comes down to a rethinking of what a
diff is. "If you want to know the complete accurate details
of how it works, I suggest reading the source", they say,
ending the rest of *that* explanation. If you're the sort
of person who does that with 4200 lines of Python, then
Codeville is the sort of thing for you. For the lazier yet
ambitious, VESTA is an eon-old, stable GPL'd configuration
management system that was used to maintain 130MB of the
Digital Alpha dev team work. It detects dependencies
automatically by watching what processes load what files,
and guarantees binary-perfect reproducibility by sucking
*everything* into the versioning process: compilers,
libraries, your aunt, environment variables. It scary.
Version control all scary.
http://subversion.tigris.org/
- version 1.0 saaafe
http://bitconjurer.org/codeville/
- python cleeean
http://www.vestasys.org/
- big company's have own ecosystem
http://www.zooko.com/revision_control_quick_ref.html
- zooko stared at all so you don't have to
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