Re: Summary of a IRC conversation in #zynot-infra

On 8/11/03 6:13 PM, "Mark Guertin" <[email protected]> wrote:

>> No, you do not have to pull the whole tree. I posted three links where
>> you always can download the newest (x86 tested) subversion ebuild and
>> it's dependend packages.
> 
> Ok, whatever.  What about svn.eclass you mentioned, the entire contents of
> the files/ dirs (digests, patches, etc.).
> 
> If there ever surfaces a way to install svn without jumping through hoops
> please post on the mailing list.  Until then I'll crawl back into my hole
> and work on my own stuff until Zynot is a little more together.  It wears
> pretty thin to have to literally _fight_ about getting the tools we have
> been told we need to develop on this distro into a format that is useable.
> Momentum is now officially going backwards for me.
> 
> Sorry to sound negative, but there is not much positive in me today :/

Didn't mean to sound like I was coming down on anyone there, I'm not and I
just wanted to say that after re-reading my post to clarify (email SUCKS as
a communication medium).

I'm just saying it sucks to wait.  I'm worse than a kid in a candy store,
but at the same time we are in a stale mate for many things, or the chicken
and the egg (however you wanna say it).  Can't have one without the other.

But I guess the point I'm trying to make with all this is it's silly that we
are having this much issue doing simple things.  Do we have a proper flow
that we should be following, or are we still running ad-hoc ?

I've just been picking and pecking away at a ppc tree but am still a bit
hesitant to start going full out on things as there are still very many
pieces of the picture to fall into place, and while I respect all the
efforts we are making towards doing things in an orderly fashion, it's a
damned slow process, which makes it difficult to retain enthusiasm towards
keeping trees going that (literally) 4 people are using.  Either we run the
tree for 4 people by 4 people ( a lot of work ) or we let things get stale
and just toss it and start afresh when things are rolling.

Mark