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Re: SVN or git (was Re: Build using CMake)

From: Sukender <suky0001_at_free.fr>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:17:00 +0100

Hi Daniel,

Well, this was just a comment about CDash, nothing more :)
Of course, migrating could be difficult...

Sukender
PVLE - Lightweight cross-platform game engine - http://pvle.sourceforge.net/

Le Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:16:37 +0100, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnson31_at_gmail.com> a écrit:

>
> On Mar 21, 2009, at 4:51 PM, Sukender wrote:
>
>> Well, I was talking about SVN because it's simply a "better CVS"; of
>> course there are many other versionning systems.
>>
>> CDash allows you to store and display build results on a server.
>> It's well integrated with CMake/CTest. See for example the report
>> for OSG on the CDash public server: http://www.cdash.org/CDashPublic/index.php?project=OpenSceneGraph
>
> Did you know that curl already has an autobuild system? The build
> results are at http://curl.haxx.se/auto and people can run their
> builds with the curl/tests/testcurl.pl script. I have a cron job set
> up to run a build of cvs HEAD every day which gets mailed to the
> server. It's really easy.
>
> It seems that it would be a lot of work to migrate to a new VCS and
> build system for no real benefit. Arguments about which VCS or build
> system is best can provoke religious wars as bad as Mac/PC and vi/
> emacs. :) For instance, I'm quite comfortable with GNU autotools, but
> some bad experiences have caused me to hate CMake with a burning
> passion comparable to a supernova. But that's just me. :)
>
> Daniel
Received on 2009-03-22