On Tuesday 27 December 2005 10:22, Paul wrote:
Hi Gene
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 14:40, Gene Heskett wrote:
Well, if the new emc2 version is to be transfered from a cvs repo to an svn repo, then I'm in favor of enough of a svn kit to be able to keep it up2date. As to what to drop, I'm not familiar enough to have any really good, this could go, ideas. As long as apt-get is there, though, much of the rest of my concerns are only an ethernet cable away. I was disappointed that vim wasn't included in 4.30, but thats fixable so its just me mewling about it at the end of the day.
vim weighs in at an additional 4M (not as bad as emacs at 13.1), and rather than stiring up an editors war, I'd prefer to leave both of them out.
For a lightweight CLI editor, you have nano, and kate serves as the heavyweight GUI editor.
Kate may in some eyes be a heavyweight gui editor, but it has some warts I haven't found the right place to apply the acid to excise them. Its used here only under duress.
Personally, I use cedit (part of midnight commander).
That too, if only the blue screen blues could be reset. It works fine, but its control syntax doesn't seem 'right' to a vim user, which makes it slower because once I remember that I'm not using vim, I have to re-read everything to make sure an automatic vim response didn't mung the file. As for nano, I'm not fam with it at all, but may I presume there is a manpage for it also? I've used pico a couple of times, once after a box got rootkitted (old bind vulnerability) about 6 years ago, so the memory is hazy at best. The rootkitter left a copy of pico behind. Personally, as an old amiga user, I still miss the updated ced 4.20 thats on that old box in the basement. But thats history now.
Debian's apt tools are part of the base system, so there is no chance of apt-get being thrown out.
As for emc2 migrating to svn - It isn't going to happen any time soon. Sourceforge have recently started to trial subversion and do not plan on rolling it out across the system until March at the earliest. The inclusion of subversion in the BDI-4 builds is primarily for the people that use BDI-4 for non-EMC development..
Then that doesn't seem to be so important right now. And when that time comes, just sub svn for cvs in the iso & update the docs to reflect the change.
Regards, Paul.
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