Re: Is BoaConstructor still being developed? -2 questions

Hi Werner, and Riaan,

I know Boa is still being developed.  Significant updates continue to 
come, but they don't seem to come very frequently.  That indicates to me 
that Riaan remains the main developer, but as I think he's said, doesn't 
have much time to improve Boa.  I know Riaan welcomes and integrates 
patches, but I wonder if more people might contribute patches if the 
code was not managed in a distributed rather than centralized version 
control system.

Over the last year or so I've taken to migrating all my projects out of 
CVS & Subversion into Bazaar, because the distributed version control 
system model makes it a little easier for others to contribute code to 
the mainline, partly by giving each user a local copy of the repository 
itself.  It's also easy to set up any directory as a Bazaar-managed 
repository (easier than CVS & SVN--3 commands:  bzr init, bzr add, bzr 
commit), because you don't have to set up a central repository server 
before you can start versioning your code.

Bazaar also gives you the option to host your code centrally on 
Launchpad and use its collaboration features which are similar to 
SourceForge.  I haven't used Launchpad a lot, but I like their model of 
allowing parallel branches to be owned & developed by different people 
and merged when an owner wants to merge, because I think that fosters 
more feature development, yes, with the risk that incompatible branches 
will develop, but I think the correlative risk in a centralized version 
control model is that the mainline experiences less feature development.

So, you might consider using one of the distributed version control 
systems if you think there's a bottleneck connected to the version 
control system that's being used.

Tim Black

Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> Hi Vern,
>
> vmars wrote:
>   
>> Greetings:
>>  
>> 1) Please, is Boa still being developed?
>>     
> Yes it is.
>   
>>     Its very easy for me to use, because I am used to Delphi.
>>     I think that BC is a valuable program,
>>     and I hope it continues to be developed!
>>     
> I am sure Riaan will be happy to hear this.
>   
>>  
>> 2) I would like to read the BC help files, without having to keep BC running
>>     Is there a way to do this?
>>     
> Check the folder:
> yourboainstallfolder\Docs\boa
>
> There is an index.html in both of the sub-folders.
>
> Werner
>
>
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