RE: Web page modifications ready for proofreading

["Harold Hunt" <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Yeah, I think I'm going to have to break down and buy a book on CVS.

That and books on compiler design and operating systems, just for the thrill
:)

Harold

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Robert
> Collins
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 6:34 PM
> To: Harold Hunt; 'Cygx (E-mail)'
> Subject: Re: Web page modifications ready for proofreading
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harold Hunt" <huntharo@msu.edu>
> To: "'Cygx (E-mail)'" <cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com>
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 12:01 AM
> Subject: RE: Web page modifications ready for proofreading
>
>
> > > I suggest that all the test cases, binaries and code, also
> > > should be sent
> > > to maintainers and put of Cygwin/Xfree86 server. It is more
> > > convenient to
> > > have everyhting at one place then to scatter around at several URL
> > > from contributors.
> >
> > Again, scratching my itches...
> >
> > CVS is definitely more convenient than editing my personal web space
> which
> > is accessible via SAMBA... wait a minute... :)
> >
> > Harold
> >
>
> Actually I find it is! With the ability to tag a branch a
> test case off
> and announce "test case is available as branch foo", I can effectively
> publish a new version of (say squid which is where most of my hacking
> goes on) in about 2 minutes - on my 56kb modem!. Downloaders
> then simply
> copy one of their HEAD working directories, perform an update -r to
> change to my test tag and they've got the source - without
> fiddling with
> patches or downloading from scratch...
>
> Rob
>