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Re: [Arx-users] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] State of the Arches
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Walter Landry |
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Re: [Arx-users] Re: [Gnu-arch-users] State of the Arches |
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Wed, 23 Mar 2005 21:37:13 -0500 (EST) |
Karel Gardas <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Tom Lord wrote:
> > he set out to reimplement `larch' in /C++/ and by all
> > reports has done quite well. Of slight concern, perhaps, is that
> > `ArX' has fallen out of compatability, as far as I know, with `tla'
> > and `baz'. It might be helpful, incidentally, for the greater
> > Arch community to help repair any residual personality rift between
> > Landry and I, at least enough to repair bidirectional compatability
> > between all branches.
>
> That would be just great!
Bidirectional compatability is unlikely. The changes I have made to
the archive and patch format for things like arbitrary branch depth
(e.g. foo.bar.baz.bat.bag,13), i18n, generalized tags, properties, and
efficient binaries are rather dramatic. I implemented cryptographic
checksums and mirroring differently, and I got rid of the implicit and
names inventory methods. I am sure that I am forgetting some other
things as well. Tla and/or baz would have to improve a lot for me to
consider any compatibility.
Cheers,
Walter