Re: kernel.bkbits.net off the air

[Larry McVoy]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 08:35:33AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> > One of us is not getting it, maybe it's me.  To build something like
> > you describe is pretty easy IF AND ONLY IF all you are asking for is an
> > update mechanism.  As soon as you want revision history, diffs, rollbacks,
> > modifiable files, etc., you have to go to real BK.  Is that OK?  All you
> 
> Spec for bk-lite:
> 
> 1) Binary with "no worky on other SCM" kinda license
> 2) update+history+diff (no rollbacks, no modifiable files, no etc...)
> 
> In that way all current users of bk2cvs, bk2svn, bk2xxx can simply do a 
> pull from a bk repo and have they own scripts on their local machine to do 
> their bk2xxx. It will be a lower headache for you and for kernel.org 
> maintainers. Is it feasible ?

update, yes.  history, no, use bk/web.  diffs, no, use bk/web or bk.  building
it is certainly possible and you could do it yourself.  We already built the
cvs exporter which is a lot nicer than what you are asking for and building 
another thing for another 6 users seems pointless.  If you want to pay for the
engineering then contact me offline.
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Larry McVoy              lm at bitmover.com          http://www.bitmover.com/lm
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