Re: [MacPerl] Filemaker Pro DB

[Chris Nandor <pudge@adelphia.net>]

At 15:59 +0200 2000.09.13, 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?

Whatever you want it to be.  It is a place for anyone to upload patches,
and project developers can delete them, include them, whatever.


>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.

Yes, I guess if you have never used CVS, it would be intimidating.  There
is a CVS how-to in the SourceForge documentation, though, that can get you
started.  Essentially, it is the working repository of files in the
project.  Developers have full access to modify files, add files, delete
files.  Everyone else has read-only access.

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