[rt-devel] hacking on rt.

[Jesse Vincent]

Yeah. I've spent a bit of time with it. In time, I suspect it will be quite
cool, but it's still not mature.  It's mostly written against posix.2, which
means that it doesn't run so well on everything out there just yet, including
my MacOS X laptop, where I do most of RT's development.   And, while I'm not
in much of a position to talk, the fact that it's tens of thousands of lines of /bin/bash still frightens me a bit ;)

	-j


On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:48:25AM -0500, alex at paix.pilosoft.com wrote:
> Jesse,
> 
> Have you looked at arch yet? :)
> 
> I haven't had time to use it, but it seems to win quite a bit of mindshare 
> now...
> 
> -alex
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Jesse Vincent wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > Sorry this is so long.
> > 
> > That's exactly what I needed. It's more that aegis docs are a little hard
> > to deal with sometimes and it is a _much_ more complex system than CVS with
> > a fairly different mindset, which requires some serious work to wrap one's head
> > around fully.  I guess the one thing that still doesn't seem easy
> > is to provide anonymous read-only access to the live repository. 
> > 
> > Is the right thing there just to script aedist into a commit hook? 
> > On the client side, I guess a small perl script that does a wget of the .ae
> > file and an aerecieve would mostly mimic "cvs update" against a remote 
> > repository.  Or could a script actually ssh to the aegis server and do an aedist
> > |aerecieve (on the local host) on demand?    
> > 
> > Is there a nice aegis webui somewhere?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 	Jesse
> > 
> > > Anyway, these are just my rambling thoughts.
> > > Others may have much more elegant solutions.
> > > 
> > > I hope it helps answer a question or two or, more importantly, spurs a 
> > > question or two.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Jesse, thanks again for RT.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Joshua Johnson
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > --On Friday, February 08, 2002 12:20:48 PM -0500 Jesse Vincent 
> > > <jesse at bestpractical.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 11:02:02AM +0200, Fabian Ritzmann wrote:
> > > >> Two open-source systems you might want to consider:
> > > >>
> > > >> Aegis: http://aegis.sourceforge.net/
> > > >> - Mature, complete configuration management system. Unix only, but WWW
> > > >> interface.
> > > >
> > > > *nod* I actually spent a bit of time with aegis a while ago and decided
> > > > that its manual was too obtuse and it was too process-bound.  The fact
> > > > that it doesn't have a way of allowing remote developers to interact with
> > > > a repository without local shell access also bothered me.  But over the
> > > > past day or two, I've been re-familiarizing myself with the package and
> > > > think I see ways around most of my major issues with a little bit of
> > > > scripting.
> > > >
> > > >>
> > > >> Subversion: http://subversion.tigris.org/
> > > >> - Very interesting architecture, but still pre-alpha.
> > > >
> > > > A friend of mine hacks on subversion. It looks very interesting, but still
> > > > isn't quite ready for primetime and it doesn't have one of the two
> > > > features that I really really want: the ability to do distributed
> > > > repositories cleanly, so I can work on a branch on my laptop (without
> > > > net) , checking in every time  I hit a micro-milestone and then merge up
> > > > to the "main" repository when I  finish.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'm currently leaning toward spending a couple days playing with an aegis
> > > > repository and the RT 2.1 codebase. The basic plan would be to leave the
> > > > 2.0 branch in CVS, but to do new development in the new VCS.  Has anyone
> > > > here worked with aegis?
> > > >
> > > > 	-j
> > > >
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