Re: [Gnumed-devel] Server vs CVS options to increase gnumed input

[Karsten Hilbert]

> There was previous discussion of a public server at:
> http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2003-04/msg00019.html
The server mentioned there has been running continously for
more than a year now. It has been connected to by various
folks every so often. I regularly update/test it.

If I had access to better connected *Linux* server (gnumed.net)
I would have set it up there. I have failed to install pyPgSQL
on BSD, so there.

> Would a public server allow people to participate by having to download 
> only a client?
IMHO yes.

> I am here talking about CVS as I 
> try to better understand it. I am imagining that even if Richard has a 
> version of gnumed installed, Ian and Karsten's experimentations are 
> done in their own respective sections of the CVS.
I try to adhere to the following:

If making large, sweeping, experimental changes test them in
gnumed/test-area/.

If making changes that go into the main trunk test them
before checking in, update the public database and announce
them on the mailing list.

> Is it possible, 
> practical or too prone to accidental overwriting for a person to 
> maintain on their own computer not only the "current / default" version 
> of gnumed, plus their own experimental changes, but to also download 
> someone else's test code into yet another area on their own computer? 
It is fully possible to have several local repositories.
However, CVS does not work well for distributed development.
Syan has done such things as providing testable versions in
test-area.

Another thing would be to start using branches/release tags.

Karsten
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