Re: [Monotone-devel] 'SelfHostingInfo' on mtn wiki

[Ludovic Brenta]

Hendrik Boom wrote:

> On http://wiki.monotone.ca/SelfHostingInfo/ it says:

> 

> $ # Command for monotone <=0.48

> $ mtn --db=mtn.db clone mtn://monotone.ca/monotone

"?net.venge.monotone*" \

>       -b net.venge.monotone monotone

> 

> but when I try this I get:

> 

> address@hidden:~/dv/mtn$ mtn --db=mtn.db clone mtn://monotone.ca/monotone

> "?net.venge.monotone*" -b net.venge.monotone monotone

> Usage: mtn [OPTION...] command [ARG...]

[...]



That's because of:



Wed Sep  3 21:13:18 UTC 2008



        0.41 release.



        Changes



        - 'mtn clone' now takes a branch argument rather than a branch

          option which is more what people expect given the fact that

          mtn push/pull/sync do not use a branch option either.



Could someone please add the relevant information for monotone <= 0.40 in

SelfHostingInfo?  For that matter, there should also be an entry for

monotone <= 0.33, since the "clone" command appeared in 0.34.  And perhaps

a note to the effect that monotone < 0.26 is no longer supported due to

netsync compatibility being broken in 0.26.



<rant>

People do not necessarily use the latest and greatest version of anything,

for various reasons.



One possible reason is that Debian stable releases are supported for one

year after the next stable release becomes available; this means the Debian

5.0 "Lenny" will be supported *at least* until November 2011 (in the

unlikely event that Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" is released this month).



There are other "long-term-support" distributions out there; Red Hat

Enterprise Linux for example has a 7-year support policy (!).

</rant>



-- 

Ludovic Brenta.