Re: Ready to start serious work on VC mode again

[Eric S. Raymond]

Jason Earl <address@hidden>:
> "Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Cleaning up Battle For Wesnoth for the big stable 1.4 release, and
> > dealing with the aftermath, took longer and ate more of my bandswidth
> > than expected.  But I'm ready to restart serious work on VC now.
> 
> I've been meaning to take another look at that game...

Yeah, it's why I disappeared for four months.  But the good news is
that it's our best release ever, not just for features but for low bug
load and stability too (we sweated blood to do it, but we reduced the bug
count by a factor of 5).  And it has an entire new campaign in it that
I wrote: The Hammer of Thursagan.
 
> An initial migration of the CVS repository using cvsps has been done.
> You can find the results at:
> 
> http://bzr.notengoamigos.org

Are changes made to this repo being propagated into CVS?

> I would also suggest that you get an up to date version of bzr.  The
> Bazaar hackers have released a major update about once a month for some
> time now with all of these updates making fairly major improvements.  It
> is entirely possible that the bzr client that ships with whatever
> distribution your using is old enough that it won't even read the format
> that the test repository is in.

I have 1.3.1, that's what Hardy Heron ships.  Is that new enough?

> The current stable version is 1.3.1, but 1.4 is going to be released
> imminently, and I believe that it will contain several fixes prompted by
> the Emacs test of bzr.  If you are serious about playing with Emacs and
> bzr you probably should just check out bzr.dev and use that :).

How soon is "imminent"?  If it's like, within two weeks I'll just wait.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>