Re: renames under CVS

[Noel Yap]

--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ On Tuesday, February 26, 2002 at 20:29:54 (-0800),
> Noel Yap wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: renames under CVS
> >
> > --- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > If you've got something good enough to commit to
> > > version tracking of any
> > > kind then you'd damn well better have thought
> really
> > > hard about what to
> > > name the file it's contained in, and what
> directory
> > > to put it in, and so
> > > on.
> > 
> > So I take it your "successful" programmer never
> had
> > anything good enough to commit to version
> tracking.
> 
> Part of his success on this project is wide use of
> three major public
> releases of the project, and over 24 patch releases
> of the most recent
> major release.  The public releases span a period of
> nearly a decade
> now, with the last major release started over five
> years ago, and
> non-public releases go all the way back to its
> beginning in mid-1984.
> 
> Many of those releases include changes contributed
> from its users.
> 
> The public releases are widely used in almost every
> internet connected
> country in the world, and it has good internal
> support for 16 different
> languages and at least three full character sets. 
> I've no idea how many
> people actually use it, but there must be tens of
> thousands, found in
> almost every walk of life you can imagine lawyers,
> mathematicians,
> physicists, educators, computer scientists,
> programmers, housewives,
> businessmen, hobbyists, etc.  It may even be more
> widely used than CVS.

This tells me he's been a developer for one (and only
one) very successful project over a span of over 15
years, not that he's been a very successful developer.

Noel

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