Re: CVS, SVN, and the GDP Handbook

[Claude Paroz <claude 2xlibre net>]

Le dimanche 18 mai 2008 à 16:14 -0500, Jacob Brown a écrit :
> I am trying to learn my way around GDP so that eventually I can make
> some useful contributions. While reading through the GDP Handbook at
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gdp/handbook/gdp-handbook/index.html
> I found information on using CVS to download the sources. I tried using
> cvs and I never got it to work. I don't think that GNOME is using CVS
> anymore but SVN. Fortunately, I found a web page in the GNOME Developers
> section (http://developer.gnome.org/tools/svn.html) that helped me
> download the documentation source files.
> 
> After going through this I thought it would be nice if I could update
> the GDP Handbook to reflect the transition from CVS to SVN so that
> someone doesn't have to go through the same thing I did. I downloaded
> the gdp-handbook folder to my computer and started updating it. I took
> the original section on CVS from the docsystem.xml file and revised it
> to discuss SVN instead. I tried to retain the original tone. In fact, I
> was able to leave a lot of words unchanged. There isn't that much
> difference between CVS and SVN. I used the SVN page from the GNOME
> Developers website as a guide.
> 
> I created bug 533750 and uploaded a patch with my suggested changes. I
> hope someone can look at this and tell me what changes are needed to
> make it good for incorporating.

Thanks Jacob, your contribution is very appreciated and is now committed
in trunk, and hopefully in library.gnome.org soon...

Claude Paroz