[development] A Git mirror for Drupal CVS

[Kyle Mathews]

That's a great idea. It'd be fairly straightforward to make a simple
drupal-specific frontend to CVS that cover the common-use cases. It'd even
make coders lives easier as in my case, whenever I want to update my module
I still have to look-up the documentation as I use other RCS systems then
CVS.

Kyle

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Wim Leers <work at wimleers.com> wrote:

> On Feb 22, 2008, at 14:27 , Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> > However great git is, given the huge number of our contributors
> > using Windows and on various levels of knowledge about RCS systems,
> > anything without a proper Windows port and a Tortoise-alike
> > interface has no chance. To my knowledge, current this means
> > Mercurial: 2007-12-02: First public release (0.0.1) of TortoiseHg
> > with binary installer. Since then there were three more releases --
> > quite an active project. There is a http://repo.or.cz/w/git-cheetah.git/
> >  which says "This is an explorer extension in its infancy. Do not
> > expect anything to work, unless you are fixing it." -- unless this
> > becomes useable, git is out of question.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > Do we want to change? I presume that the project-VCS API integration
> > happens eventually so drupal.org is ready (this is quite a stretch).
> > Well, after many years I am not so sure. Are the niceties of SVN
> > over CVS are enough to make such a big change? What this buys us?
> > Will the hard concepts of branching and tagging become easier for
> > our contrib authors? I doubt.
>
>
> At first, I found using CVS a hurdle. I managed, but I had to look up
> several of the commands every time. Until I discovered the usage
> of .bash_profile. Now I absolutely don't mind using CVS, since all
> ugly things are abstracted away (although several of these commands
> are Drupal-specific, but that doesn't matter to me, as I use SVN
> everywhere else).
>
> My point is: the biggest problem people have with CVS, is the
> usability aspect (actually the concepts, but it's usability
> improvements that should make the core concepts obvious). However,
> that can be overcome by using your shell effectively – any coder
> should know how to use a RCS and the shell. But that doesn't solve the
> other problem: themers generally don't know how to use a RCS in the
> first place.
> Changing to a different RCS won't fix any of these problems, at least
> not to the level where we need it.
>
> So I think a good candidate "solution" ("improvement" would be more
> accurate), would be to code our own CVS front-end, tied specifically
> to Drupal purposes. If written in C++/Qt, it would be possible to
> provide a cross-platform interface. Cross-platform is important to us:
> we want to support both Windows and Mac OS X (and perhaps more). This
> would probably be used by many coders too, not just themers.
> Does anybody think this is a good idea? Or perhaps it could not work?
> If so, for which reasons?
>
> So I fully agree with you, Karoly, changing the RCS won't fix any of
> the *real* issues we're currently having :)
>
> Wim Leers  ~  http://wimleers.com/work




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