[e-lang] Source control for E?

[Toby Murray]

Just a thought as I read this discussion..

Is E not supposed to be a language that might be usable for real-world 
applications? How difficult it might be to implement a dencentralised 
revision control system (RCS) in E, so it could "self-host" its own RCS, 
would be an interesting question, no?
If implemented, such a system might be a perfect demonstrator of E itself.


James Graves wrote:

>Marc Stiegler wrote:
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>>I hate to complexify the discussion, but OpenCM should at least be put 
>>on the list so it can be discarded, should it not? It has the advantage, 
>>we could probably persuade Jonathan to host it :-) It has the 
>>disadvantage that, I know Jonathan worked hard to make it as similar to 
>>CVS as possible.
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>Well, OpenCM doesn't look like it is currently maintained.  The last 
>release (an alpha) was October, 2004.
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>I think the JHU folks decided that inventing a new programming language 
>for a new operating system was more than enough work, and didn't want to 
>deal with maintaining a version control system as well.
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>The version control landscape has changed considerably since the OpenCM 
>project was started (in 2002?).  There are more and better options now.
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>And with OpenCM, everyone would have to download and install it.  As 
>opposed to something as simple as 'apt-get install darcs'.
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>Speaking of which, we will need to nudge the Coyotos folks to get some 
>kind of version control up and running for that project.  Using plain 
>rsync is a bit of a hassle...
>
>James Graves
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Toby Murray
Advanced Computer Capabilities Group
Information Networks Division
DSTO, Australia

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