I guess that intention here was to avoid hangs, but this does not
work! To make '--interaction nonstopmode' effective one has to
give it _before_ file name. So the form below is immune to hangs:
ah, that's useful to know.
fixed in the next release.
t
Cool! Were you recently saying that your Gold-To-Be is now available as
a git archive? I fear sourceforge Silver is already out-of-date.
Hmmm... yet another version control system and seemingly no documentation at
http://wiki.axiom-developer.org/AxiomSources
so the git stuff is burried in the mail archive. :-(
you've read about my many efforts to try to use the sourceforge SVN
and the frustrations and failures.
a lot of the reading i did also mentioned 'git', apparently written
by Linus after BitKeeper was pulled. so i read up on it and decided
to try it. i set up a silver userid on axiom-developer, copied in the
gold branch, applied the latest patches locally. then i tried to
clone the branch on a remote machine, then remotely modify the branch
and push it back to axiom-developer. total effort was about 1 hour.
no server process is required. no setup. no Perl.
works like magic. doesn't fail. doesn't mangle binaries. blindingly
fast. easy to use. in fact, it is so fast that making source patches
feels like doing a local copy. the side-effect is that it feels easy
to maintain source code.
once cloned, push and pull just work. so keeping remote copies
in sync is trivial, unlike the pain Bill experienced trying to
get Google syncing to work.
anyway, at this point it is just an experiment.
i just applied the --interaction patch to see if Jay can pull it.
t