Re: [Arx-users] Reasons not to switch to ArX

[amine . chadly]

Quoting Walter Landry <wlandry_at_ucsd.edu>:

> Kevin Smith <yarcs_at_qualitycode.com> wrote:
> > At work, one of our projects is seriously considering switching to
> > Subversion (from CVS). While I think svn is a worthy replacement for
> > cvs, I don't see it as the ideal long-term option. This event has
> > re-invigorated my interest in ArX, although I still have too many other
> > vastly time-consuming projects going on right now to be able to
> > contribute much to ArX.

Hi Kevin, I can share some thoughts and experience with you here:
I have been using svn on windows. And I was very pleased with it, until
I had a crash of the berkeley db that couldn't be recovered.
At that point the only thing you can do, is restore a previous backup of
your repository, and commit all the changes in one shot.
I was using the 1.0 version at that point of time, I have heard things
have improved, but my advice for you is to make frequent backups of your
repository (which is good practice regardless of your final choice ;-).

I hope to be contributing to ArX soon, as I am starting to get more and
more free time.

Regarding the win32 port, the gui and eclipse plugin. There might be a way
to catch all the birds with one stone :
The source code for the eclipse cvs plugin is probably very interesting:
The following directories
org.eclipse.team.cvs.core_3.0.1
org.eclipse.team.cvs.ssh2_3.0.0
org.eclipse.team.cvs.ssh_3.0.0
org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui_3.0.1
should contain enough information to jumpstart an ArX eclipse plugin 
relatively
shortly.
I will give it a look in the coming days, but would welcome any help ;-).

The qt gui is an interesting perspective as well.
I have been dreaming on giving qt a try, and it sounds like a nice 
opportunity.

Anybody wants to jump onboard ?

And one thing as I am at it:
I find the documentation a little difficult to comprehend the first time.
I started a document that could qualify as a nutshell answering very basic
question that one asks himself the firt time (or coming back after long
vacations :-).
Is anybody interested in adding some more beef to it and publish it ?

Take care everybody,
-amine

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