Re: [vhdl-200x] Code sharing options

From: Martin.J Thompson <Martin.J.Thompson@trw.com>
Date: Wed May 04 2011 - 07:27:08 PDT

>>> On 04 May 2011 at 13:43, in message <4DC14A00.7080601@vhdl.org>, David Bishop
<dbishop@eda.org> wrote:
>
> The reason I put svn up as the first was because I was familiar with it.
> Lets put down some constraints:
>
> 1) be supported on "eda.org" (= vhdl.org)

That means we (or someone) has to run the server. With an external host we don;t have to worry about that. And we wouldn't get some of the nice features on offer like:
* review structure
* "follow" functionality
* ... etc

I'd caution against that and link to an external host from eda.org myself (but that's just my opinion)

> 2) be accessible by anybody on the web for checkout.

Yes, all can do that.

> 3) password protected (via wiki?) for check in.

All can be logic protected for checkins

> 4) runnable on PC and Linux (Mac?)

In terms of clients, that's fine

> 5) Able to make "file sets" (releases or bundles of files)

Yes, all can do that

> 6) Has meta comments so that we can embed version numbers in the code.

I'm against that (again, personally speaking!), things like $Revision:$ are better *not* in the code, you can find it out via the version control system which is where that sort of information belongs. What's the use-case that makes this a hard requirement?

> 7) Doesn't cost us anything....
>

Does time count... ?

Cheers,
Martin

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