Re: Linux Knowledge Base Project Requirements: Draft

[Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Aaron D. Turner wrote:

[SNIP]

> > Why web-based? What's wrong with the command-line? 
> 
> Because how many of us are going to actually code on cran or the new
> production box?  None I expect.  We're all going to be running XEmacs (or
> vi if you're screwy in the head ;-) on our local machines.  It's a pain in
> the butt to login to a remote machine, check it out, download it to your
> local box, edit, copy it back, and check it back in.  I'd like to combine
> the download/CVS part into one step.

AFAIK, you can exactly do this using CVS on the command line, without
logging into the remote machine. I agree with you, the above mentioned
step would be awkward. But I must admit, that I'll stick to vi :)
Please don't start an editor flamewar here...

[SNIP]

> > That's right. Using RCS for the existing files is a good start, but we
> > should aim towards CVS. I'm eager to learn some more about remote CVS :)
> > BTW: The GNOME people have a pretty good tutorial about CVS:
> > 
> > 	http://www.gnome.org/devel/whatiscvs.shtml
> > 
> > A more in-depth document can be found here:
> > 
> > 	http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_toc.html
> > 
> > Hope that helps!
> 
> I'll look into it!

Especially look in the second one. They are also talking about setting up
a CVS Server.

> > P.S.: Since I am located in Germany, expect some delay for my
> > answers. I am six hours ahead of the time on Cran :)
> 
> Wait, doesn't that mean that you should answer my email 6 hours before I
> send it? :-)

I do -- it's the round-trip time of my answers that takes so long ;-)

Bye and goodnight,

	LenZ

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