Re: [Axiom-developer] sourceforge/silver

[Ralf Hemmecke]

On 10/27/2006 10:10 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> "Page, Bill" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> | Tim, 
> | 
> | On Friday, October 27, 2006 1:56 PM you wrote:
> | > Gaby wrote: 
> | > > What you want is not to merge branch-improvements back to
> | > > trunk at this moment.  Rather, you want to minimize distance
> | > > as much as possible.  Concretely, that means backporting
> | > > some patches on silver to that branch -- not the other way
> | > > around.
> | > 
> | 
> | Here is how I see the situation:
> | 
> |             |       |            |           |
> |             |       |        darcs and       |
> |             |    next big =  hg mirrors      |
> |             |    experiment      |           |
> |  gold       |   /                            |
> |  gold <---- |  /                             |
> |  (52)     silver  (SourceForge) <=====> Google Code
> |             |                             mirror
> |             |\___merge___                    |
> |  gold <---- |            \        |          |
> |  (51)       |\__          |       |          |
> |            /    \   back  |   darcs and      |
> |  gold <---|-<----\ .....> / = hg mirrors     |
> |  (50)     /      /  port |        |          |
> |          |      |        |        |          |
> | Now:   silver trunk    build
> |          |      |   improvements
> |         tla     |    /
> |                 |   /
> |                 |  /
> |  gold <------ trunk
> |  (49)           |
> |                CVS
> | 
> | 
> | What Gaby is talking about is shown as ....> above.
> | 
> | Now is that really *so* complicated?? :-)
>
> Hey, you should make that a PDF file and link it to the Wiki page.  It
> is so useful.  I'm pretty sure Ralf would like it :-)

You are so right, Gaby. ;-)

A .fig file is probably better since that can be converted to many 
formats. And xfig is quite a nice tool for such graphics anyway.

Thank you, Bill. You are a master of such ASCII-Graphics (and not only 
that).

Ralf