Subversion and online code libraries!

[Frank D. Engel, Jr.]

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I've been playing around with using Subversion for Ada code.

The problem with using SVN (or any other modern version control  
system, for that matter) with Revolution is the fact that the "source  
code" (stacks) are binary files.  That's okay for simple versioning,  
but it is somewhat impossible to "merge" changes of multiple developers.

Unless a Rev stack file format is modified to be text-based, and in  
such a way that developers can manage the discrepancies enough to  
handle conflict resolution, it is not possible to take full advantage  
of SVN (or CVS for that matter) with Revolution projects.

Partial advantage yes (using locking rather than merging, each  
developer working with a separate stack file at any given time), but  
not full advantage.


On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:50 AM, David Bovill wrote:

> Anyone using Subversion out there?
>
> I've been using Subversion for the last 9 months or so to save  
> changes to
> the projects I have been working on. This is not really taking much
> advantage of subversion other than saving some disk space as every few
> changes are automatically saved (only the differences). I have this  
> working
> on OSX, but it should work just the same on windows and Linux.  
> There is not
> much of an interface yet.
>
> The real use of subversion / cvs is with a team working on a  
> project - for
> instance members of this list working on libraries or components  
> together. I
> have an online subversion repository that I use, with integrated
> documentation that I use for my own projects, and was wandering if  
> there
> would be any interest in others on this list using such a tool?
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