-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 How does git differ from svn? I heard svn (Subversion) was better than cvs but what is said of git? Elinks developers use git also. It would be nice to standardize on a single revision system but choice is what it's all about I guess. On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:28:45PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote: > Quite a few of the changes suggested in Adrian Bunk's suggestion list > were implemented. Others I didn't understand the criticisms and when > I asked did not get definitive answers. Some of the suggestions I > didn't understand, I could not figure out how else to implement. I > have offered to rewrite sections of the code with help from many > people that have offered and have never been able to actually get any > help after the offering. I have basically given up on the process > because of lack of expertise on my part and lack of assistance on the > part of others. I originally worked closely with Alan Cox to get it > in and it was mostly there and then Alan and Linus had their falling > out and so that ended up slipping down the tubes. > > I would like speakup to be in the actual kernel code because that > would make my job easier maintaining it when someone else changes the > kernel code they would have to be partially aware of the speakup code > needing to be modified also. As it is speakup works well for the most > part and is relatively easy to patch for novices. I am not going to > try to get in the kernel code any more unless someone is really > willing to help me with the modifications and answer my silly > questions when I have them, which is often. > > I have been moving speakup to git or I should say Daniel Drake has > moved speakup to git but it is not ready for prime-time yet. I either > have to rewrite the checkout/checkin scripts or move to another system > such as quilt. My first looks at quilt have not been overwhelmingly > encouraging because of what looks to be lack of documentation or > tutorials or something. I can't find anything useful reading wise on > the quilt web page. Maybe I have the wrong page who knows but Daniel > gave it to me so I suspect it is just sparse. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- HolmesGrown Solutions The best solutions for the best price! http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFJA+uWSjv55S0LfERA7RgAKCz9bYGrK3e7WuzUcSm+HXHoZeNHwCg02f9 JHKWi8zbF3fHV+pWV5V7hHg= =7ERY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
