From: Justin Mason (jm at domain netnoteinc.com)
Date: Wed 22 Sep 1999 - 16:49:36 IST
Caolan McNamara said:
> Needless to say the linux kernel has survived very very well indeed
> without c vs, by using patches and regular releases on a very frequent
> basis. There is no substitute for regular tar files, though I would also
> make a case for using distributed cvs trees, mirrorrin the cvs updates
> from the server to slaves, though the sync conditions there would be a
> veritable nightmare, and impracticl I suspect, though making automated
> diffs in the cvs tree from the last regular release and putting that on
> a ftp site as a diff is perfectly acceptable and possible. Again is what
> wine does.
>
> Rise up and demand your snapshot tarfiles.
I can't agree more! WTF is mozilla/gnome's reason for not simply
providing a tgz of the cvs tree?? A cron job to do this is painfully
easy.
(Not speaking from experience myself, but I can sympathise. ;)
--j.
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