on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:57:19PM +1100, Brian May (bam@debian.org) wrote: > >>>>> "kmself" == kmself <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > - I currently use CVS for projects that aren't open-source (eg. my > Thesis, in LaTeX format), that aren't really commercial (I never > intend to make any money from it), or somewhere in-between (ie > software projects I am playing around with, but not significant enough > to release as open-source projects) but I don't particular want to > make public either. If you're looking at single-user work, my understanding is that the licensing stuff doesn't really kick in. Though single-user BitKeeper is a bit like having a one-seat arena. It pretty much defeats the purpose. Still, the idea is to make the restrictions important to organizations, not single users. > Also, it seems to rule out disconnected operation, ie. having a CVS > repository on a laptop computer, for instance. Then again, I wonder - > what does happen in that case? Does it come up with an error "unable > to contact public logging server - aborting", or is it just a warning? Larry's background, other than version control, is SMP and clustering work -- he's worked at Sun and SGI, and was part of the GNU/Linux Clustering Cabal, which has more or less melted down (the money's in version control right now). Similarity exists, however: cache coherence. A version control system like BitKeeper is essentially trying to address the same problem, though on a radically different scale, as a shared-memory architecture computer. Not sure what the specific mechanism for a single, standalone, non-networked host with both sandbox and repository, but I'd be surprised if Larry didn't think of it. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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