Re: [MacPerl] FileMaker Pro DB

[Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 3:59 PM +0200 9/13/00, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 07:33:38 -0400, Chris Nandor wrote:
>
>>At 12:38 +0200 2000.09.13, Bart Lateur wrote:
>
>>>What next? What are all these options here, apart from the "doownload"
>>>link? (That one is obvious, but the others...)
>>
>>Hm.
>>to submit ot look at patches, Patches; for CVS access, CVS.
>
>>All that just to say that I hope that it is mostly self-explanatory.
>
>All except these two. What are "patches"? Is this some kind of "diff"
>file, or a set of modified fiels, or a completely different package? How
>can one apply patches on a Mac? How do multiple patches cooperate?

Yes, a patch is a diff of the original version and the new modified 
version.  The easiest way to apply patches on a Mac is to install MPW 
and use one of Larry Wall's other great contributions, patch.  The 
text editor Alpha comes with a copy of GNU diff that works with Alpha.

>
>And "CVS" is one of the most daunting things I've ever seen. All I
>understand, and even that can be wrong, is that one can "lock" a file
>for modification, saying "I'm working on it!". How this can allow other
>people to accept or reject changes applied by this person: I have not a
>clue.

CVS is actually a good way of dealing with having multiple people 
working on the same software, or having one person working on a piece 
of software from multiple machines (the way I use it).  There are Mac 
OS CVS clients available; do a search at 
<http://www.versiontracker.com>.  But I'll bet in this case that, 
unless you're Chris, you really don't have to worry about CVS except 
to learn how to checkout.

>
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>	Bart.
>
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