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Re: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs
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David MENTRE |
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Re: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs |
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Sun, 07 Nov 2004 15:22:27 +0100 |
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Hello Tim,
Tim Daly <address@hidden> writes:
> Some of this is covered well by all of the software. I switched
> from CVS to Arch and was working with it reasonably well, although
> I got the impression that I "didn't get it" and was using it wrong.
> I eventually ran out of disk space on the machine that was hosting
> Arch (where I was a guest) so I had to take it down.
Once again:
- use Arch on your local machine, with a lot of free disk space;
- make a mirror of your local Arch archive to the axiom-developer.org
server.
To give figures, for about 100Ko of compressed sources (per release):
- my local arch tree where I work takes 20 MBytes;
- the local Arch repository is about 4 MBytes (for about 200 releases);
- the remote Arch repository is also of about 4 MBytes.
[...]
> Methinks the world needs a new kind of person, a "project librarian",
> who has the job of building and maintaining meta-projects by contacting
> and working with other librarians. The complexity of maintaining a
> repository that holds dozens of cooperating projects makes my hair hurt.
In some sense, the people making packages in Linux distributions (like
Camm as a Debian developer) are doing exactly this: make a coherent set
from a set of sources on the Net. To attack this complexity, they are
defining policy and rules like in the Debian Policy Manual
(http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/).
Other people are doing similar things in an OS agnostic but language
specific way with GODI packaging system for OCaml software
(http://godi.ocaml-programming.de/). Once again, real people are behind
software packaging.
I cannot comment further on your proposal and certainly won't volunteer
for the job, but your long term vision is probably right. However, we
are probably a too small comunity to be able to do this right now.
Yours,
d.
--
David MENTRE <address@hidden> -- http://www.nongnu.org/axiom/
- [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs, Tim Daly, 2004/11/04
- RE: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs, Weiss, Juergen, 2004/11/18
- RE: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties, Martin Rubey, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties, root, 2004/11/18
- Re: [Axiom-developer] CVS, Arch, Darcs / bounties, Bob McElrath, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] current state and CCL, Bill Page, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] Re: current state and CCL, root, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Bill Page, 2004/11/18
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Bob McElrath, 2004/11/19
- [Axiom-developer] Re: proposal to create the Axiom Foundation (was: bounties etc.), Camm Maguire, 2004/11/19