| action | CSWookie calls for the eternal blessings of heaven upon SVN and those brought forth its glory into the world. |
| CSWookie | calls for the eternal blessings of heaven upon SVN and those brought forth its glory into the world. |
| hays | yes-- I started using SVN recently and it is really awesome |
| Red_Herring|zzzz | it is i just started using it with sourceforge its really really handy |
| blanky | haha you guys are kinda late to the party :P |
| hays | yeah, I know but never needed it before now now that I needed it enough to figure out how it works, I find its really awesome. (even for things I might not --need-- it for. |
| josepharmbruster | i can't imagine life without svn |
| blanky | haha |
| josepharmbruster | we use to use vss back where i worked.. but i pushed like HELL for svn. |
| hays | Our software people are idiots and still downselecting a source control system. |
| josepharmbruster | i'm always annoyed when i have to use cvs... |
| hays | I feel like slapping them. |
| putz | who isn't annoyed at having to use CVS? |
| josepharmbruster | it's never made sense to my why some projects don't step up |
| hays | Well, these retards will probably decide to use something that costs money |
| putz | like bitkeeper or something? |
| hays | they've got a few options on the list, I think vss is one of them |
| CSWookie | "downselecting"? |
| hays | Yeah, they are overengineering the problem |
| josepharmbruster | but, what burns me.... is when any source tree becomes Polluted BURNS. |
| CSWookie | Polluted? These jargoney terms you use. |
| hays | CSWookie: downselecting is taking a list of choices and eliminating some of them because they don't meet requirements. Its an engineering process usually for more complicated problems that picking a freaking source control system s/that/than |
| josepharmbruster | like, say... with tons of libs or other such naughty things... that maybe shouldn't be there to begin with |
| CSWookie | hays: It sounds to me like the way one makes a decision. |
| hays | CSWookie: sure, but downselection usually implied some amount of protracted study and coordination among many people to make a decision. |
| CSWookie | hays: Shall I have a sandwich, or pizza? (list) I shall have pizza, because the sandwich is not hot. josepharmbruster: Heh. I wish our source were more splitty. |
| josepharmbruster | so, in other news.. i'm working on a DICOM parser for a buddy of mine. |
| deltab | hays: like shortlisting? |
| josepharmbruster | looks like the community could use one, so i'm hackin away... he's going to use it for his masters thesis research... |
| hays | these guys have a bunch of old pascal, C, PL/M, ... VLSI,... C++, various ASM.. source files... and some of it only works on very old equipment... but anyways they want a way to put it in a safe place with version control, etc. |