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Ted Leung on the air: Open Source, Java, Python, and ...
Fri, 09 Jul 2004
More Arch
I've written a bit about the Arch version control system before. Today, Tom Lord, the author of Arch, stopped by OSAF to talk about Arch and answer questions about it. Like most people, we're interested in a better version control tool. It's always interesting to hear the creator of something explain it, and I think I have a slightly better notion about the motivations for Arch. The biggest obstacle for us at OSAF, is that support for Windows needs some work. I put my notes onto my Wiki notebook page.
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I realize scm products are important and i hate cvs as much as anybody else but in general it seems that the chandler project devotes more time to infrastructure and long range fantasy planning than to producing code that works today. I believe in transparency and I think it is good but the detailed explanation of every desicion and choice is way over board. Noboday is asking why this or why that but there are numerous post. Hell who cares if using pyLucene is the stupidest idea ever - just say that it is it for now and move along - if people complain or bitch - ignore them (as long as the code works). At the end who cares about the beauty of the underlying stuff - if it doesn't do a damn thing. Chandler looks cool but it is becoming an exercise in fantasy land - where is the working code. I look at Haystack and it is way to slow to use but it actually comes close to working. The second half of 'developers developers developers' is 'ship it! ship it! ship it!'
Posted by derek at Fri Jul 9 10:28:43 2004
Posted by derek at Fri Jul 9 10:28:43 2004
Derek,
I'm not sure what you mean by infrastructure. If you mean things like source control and bug systems, then we've probably spent less than 1 full day discussing each of them, at least since I've been around.
If you're talking about building our own storage system and cross platform GUI toolkit, then you'd be right. For better or worse, that's the path that we're on, and that's taking more time than we expected it to.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jul 9 11:22:02 2004
I'm not sure what you mean by infrastructure. If you mean things like source control and bug systems, then we've probably spent less than 1 full day discussing each of them, at least since I've been around.
If you're talking about building our own storage system and cross platform GUI toolkit, then you'd be right. For better or worse, that's the path that we're on, and that's taking more time than we expected it to.
Posted by Ted Leung at Fri Jul 9 11:22:02 2004
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