Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:28:00 +0200
To: Jacques Garrigue <garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp>
Cc: robertr at rftp.com, lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Additional export request from dlllablgtk2
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From: Sven Luther <sven.luther at wanadoo.fr>

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 03:24:14PM +0900, Jacques Garrigue wrote:
> From: Robert Roessler <robertr at rftp.com>
> 
> > You (and Olivier) occasionally mention "the CVS version"... yet the 
> > only LablGTK page I am aware of 
> > (http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/soft/olabl/lablgtk.html) never 
> > talks about CVS access.  Is public (RO, of course) access available?
> 
> Unfortunately, no.
> Anonymous CVS creates security problems, and I cannot take this risk.
> The advantage of the current situation is that I have full control of
> the CVS server, and can easily add people who wish to contribute. But
> not read-only.
> 
> Having the sources on the caml server at INRIA would be an option too.
> But it's less flexible.
> 
> I'm not too enthousiastic at moving to sourceforge either, because I'm
> afraid it would be harder to fix things when needed.
> 
> So, the current solution is to have CVS for developpers, and snapshots
> for users. Snapshots happen when there are significant changes, or when
> there is special demand. If you tell me that you need a snapshot
> because you want to distribute some code that depends on a bug fix,
> then I will do it...

What about having a cronjob or whatever doing daily snapshots of the CVS
version, and providing a couple of days on the web site ? I mean you could
easily have the last week or so available as tarballs, without compromising
the security of the CVS server, and allowing folk to access the latest and
greatest stuff if they want

Alternatively, as there are less frequent updates than once daily to the cvs
server, such a tarball could be trigerred only after each day where commits
where made, and the 7 last such days be kept or something.

Friendly,

Sven Lu