Re: hosting packages on external VCS sites
| From: | Sebastian Nohn | Date: | Thu, 22 Mar 2007 07:44:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: hosting packages on external VCS sites | ||
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Mika Tuupola wrote:
> IMO this is more religious issue than developer issue. I work with both
> CVS and SVN and find no problem switching between them. Yes, Subversion
> is better. Especially with big projects. Then again most PEAR classes
> are relatively small.
I would even say that CVS better suits the needs of PEAR unless we
introduce a very complex directory structure to allow individual
branching and tagging per package.
> Bigger problem is documentation. Writing Docbook is quite painful.
> Debugging Docbook is painful. Installing own Docbook building
> environment is painful.
You are right with the wrtiung & debugging issues, but installation is
no Problem here, neither with Cygwin nor with Ubuntu. All precompiled
binaries.
- Sebastian