Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla changes --diffs question

[andreif]

Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:

>Arch doesn't have consistency problems; the 
>environment does---you said so yourself.
>
> Of course Arch developers should be willing 
> to help you by providing the hooks and 
> even the scripts to hang on the hooks, 
> but really what you're saying is the equivalent 
> of "some of our programmers like to use Ada, and some 
> like C++; Arch has a consistency problem because 
> it doesn't translate everything the C++ in the 
> archive."

Hi Stephen,

First I would like to say that I am very greatful for 
all the work done on arch and the amount of help I 
receive on this list for my problems.

I don't agree 100% with your comment though, what I was 
thinking is that arch has some consistency problems 
because it allows tla 1.2 write in 1.2.1 repositories 
even though in 1.2.1 files are no longer all considered 
binary and CR LF is modified on commit to LF. So tla 
1.2 could corrupt in some ways tla 1.2.1 repositories. 
Maybe my understanding is wrong.

Another small problem that I noticed is that tla 1.2 
can't access 1.2.1 archives completely, maybe it's the 
cygwin port only but I tried to get latest version of 
my repository which was made with 1.2.1 - using tla 1.2 
it gave up after unpacking some patches. My opinion is 
that this isn't solid behaviour, either the repository 
should be 100% backwards compatible or it should use a 
somehow different format so older versions couldn't 
access it.

Anyway I will switch to linux version of arch and give 
it another try, maybe all those problems I get are due 
to the cygwin port.

Thanks again for all the help,
Andrei

P.S. : anyone knows what happend to the nice arch 
tutorial at 
http://www.gnuarch.org/tutorial/html/arch.html ? Seems  
it disappeared since yesterday ...