RE: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation

[Bill Petheram]

Exactly.

Users would have the choice of administrating the inventory directly or
letting arch do it, or both.

PRCS had the inventory as part of the (text) project file and so it could be
editted.

bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Stephens [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 28 August 2003 12:20
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Gnu-arch-users] tagging-method explicit implementation


This relates to Tom's idea of having some kind of agreed standard for
arch-tag (presumably called something else), but it's not quite the
same.

Those CM systems that I can remember seem to require explicit commands
to rename, add, or delete files and directories.  Those commands
manipulate some kind of inventory somewhere.

Why doesn't arch's explicit tagging method do this?  Why does it work
by scattering arch droppings all over the place?

It seems that Tom is *really* keen for people to use taglines, but I
think the other CM systems have it right.  Underneath, the system
needs to have an inventory in order to know what's there and how it
changes.  Things like arch's names tagging method and taglines are
just conveniences, (and tree-lint, and the regexps that configure it
are a neat idea which other CM systems should probably copy).  But the
implementation of explicit (both in explicit and tagline tagging
methods) is just horrible---it's not just that ext2 filesystems don't
do small files efficiently, it's that the implementation is just
wrong.

And the implementation goes right into the changeset and archive
storage.  That's what'll make it so awkward to change, I fear.  That's
also what makes it difficult to change tagging methods of a
project---if everything just used an inventory (directly or
indirectly), then the tagging method would be almost entirely a
user-interface preference.


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