[xougen] Re: partnership with the Xouvert project?

[David Fraser]

Harold L Hunt II wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> Jonathan Walther wrote:
>
> > Hi Harold.
>
>
> Hello, hello.
>
> > My name is Jonathan Walther, and I am the coordinator for the Xouvert
> > project.  I read your post on Slashdot yesterday, and it looks like you
> > are responding to some of the same frustrations and desire for change
> > that inspired the Xouvert project.
> >
> >    http://xouvert.org
> >
> > Xouvert is using arch instead of CVS.  We aren't doing this lightly; we
> > see a clear benefit to it.  One of the benefits is it's revision control
> > discipline is more natural and makes it vastly easier to have a wide
> > diversity of "branches" going at once, keeping in sync with each other.
>
>
> Hmm... I have been looking into Xouvert since it keeps getting 
> mentioned to me... but I still can't find anything that indicates that 
> arch works (or would be easy to make work) on Cygwin.  Could others 
> please check the status on arch on Cygwin?
>
> > We would love to incorporate your changes, and give you and anyone you
> > delegate full commit access to our revision control tree.  Would you be
> > interested in partnering with our project?  I think we can both provide
> > each other with a lot of positive benefits.
> >
> > No action is required on your part, Xouvert is working on our first
> > release which should be soon.  Like you, we are starting with XFree86
> > 4.3 as our base.  We believe once you go through the arch tutorial, you
> > also will be sold on it's benefits for projects like ours.
>
>
> I'm sure it has benefits, but it has to compile to be useful :)
>
> Waiting for status of arch on Cygwin report...
>
> Harold
Just googling, I haven't tried it since last year ...
See this (very recent) thread:
http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-10/msg00437.html
It seems it works, with some limitations, which may/may not be 
addressable from Cygwin's side.
BTW, arch is quite different in structure from CVS, so it's worth 
reading just a little bit about the architecture - I think it's a great idea

David