[os-infrastructure] Re: Model discussion boiled dry(er)

[Joe Abbate]

Hi Daryl,

Daryl Monge wrote:
> Here are some scenarios, possibly colored with my viewpoint, that I 
> hope adds positively to the discussion.
>
> A while back when I first started looking at porting Ingres to OS/X we 
> had source tarballs and the old SVN repository.  As my objective was 
> to pretend to be an external developer, I dutifully downloaded via the 
> community source and started working on it.  In a very short period of 
> time I found myself hopelessly out of date.  I had to have the ability 
> to sync with the code respository whenever I needed or the project was 
> going nowhere.

Could you explain why you *had* to sync with the code repository 
frequently?  In porting, at least on VMS, we start with a label 
typically from Linux and we work on it, sometimes for many weeks without 
refreshing anything because we don't want to destabilize what we already 
know is working.

And Jonah Harris, who I mentioned previously, did the FreeBSD port from 
the old SVN repository.

> I recently discovered a problem with the createdbms shell script
>     http://bugs.ingres.com/ticket/138
>     http://inspect.ingres.com/r/6/
> It is a three line change.  It has not been submitted yet.  In fact I 
> can't submit it.   :-(
>             or :-) depending on your point of view...........

The interesting part about createdbms is that AFAIK it is only in the 
community repository.  If it exists in Piccolo, please let me know where.

Joe