On Saturday 17 February 2007 11:00, Jan Hendrik wrote:
> Sorry for having you puzzled and distracted, Jeff. The cost thing
> has nothing to do with the original issue, it originates in an
> aside of mine (I really like asides, don't I?
Oh, I see that your response to Erik Hemdal sheds much light for me,
but I still don't think the cost issue is at all irrelevant.
The predicament is that each time you almost come to a complete
solution, it just barely falls short because of some feature you
can't contol. Right? Happens to me, to.
My solution has been to script, or tweak something in the tool's
source code myself. I've been free personally from MS Win myself for
over two years now, so I've been able to observe people who are still
"trapped" in the environment. My greatest observation has been that
they too easily leave the blame on "the way something is". And when I
try to help them fix the problem, I have a heck of a time trying to
make microsoft stuff do what I want. For example, since DOS was
effectively meant to be a toy in the beginning, I have a really hard
time doing serious scripting with batch files.
It seems to be the fear of learning curve that keeps people from
finding out what they are missing with open source.
I think you could install Python on your subversion server (it works
on MS too), learn to use it with subversion hooks, and really find
advantage for automatically updating the website. There would be no
need for fancy FTP sync stuff relying on dates. Unfortunately I don't
have experience applying this yet, just see that it is a good use of
the post-commit hook.
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Received on Sat Feb 17 20:07:14 2007