Code repositories, was: Re: [tex-k] cm-super fails

[sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk]

sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk writes:
 >  > download the client, and what's the next step? Is there a
 >  > web page with instructions on downloading TeXlive?
 > no. the answer is "point a perforce client at sun.dante.de:1666 and do
 > a "p4 sync" :-}

I meant to say

 p4 sync //depot/Build/source.development/...

which shows four things

 * the top level of perforce is "depot". we have just one at present,
   called (boringly) "depot". we can have as many as we like
 * TeX Live consists of "Build" (sources and suchlike) and "Master"
   (the contents of the CD)
 * Perforce does branching well. the source tree is there twice, as
   "source" and "source.development". synchronizing the development
   tree back into the release tree as needed is efficient and
   effective.
 * Perforce-ese for "all the tree" is "..."

it is not hard to use the branching and integration.

sorry to sound like a perforce salesman, but I guess I am one of
the more experienced users here (its what we use to manage our web
site at http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/; we manage bug tracking with Request
Tracker, if anyone cares)

sebastian