[vos-d] thoughts for 0.24

[Peter Amstutz]

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On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Reed Hedges wrote:

> I vote for OSX, VRML and Python.  I guess we're already talking about
> property on IRC and this seems like a good idea. Not urgent but perhaps
> ought to be done soon?  Similar for connection security. Not urgent but
> should be done at some point perhaps.

It's actually *not* connection security, it's a whole new architechture 
for identifying sites that would have the incidental advantage of making 
it easier to set up encrypted connections.  However the goal is entirely 
different -- I'll discuss it in more detail in another mail, then.

However, I need to do more research into the best way to do it, so perhaps 
it can be pushed back.  So I tend to agree; scale things back a bit and 
for 0.24, go for OSX support, VRML loading, working Python scripts and the 
new property metaobject.  This seems reasonable.

> Once Python is usable then things like misc:clickable can be added as
> needed.   Somewhere I have notes on ideas about this kind of thing, I
> think in some old notebook, I'll try to find them for the wiki.
>
> I vote no on bzr since I don't think it gains us enough to offset the
> fact that it will be an obstacle (even if just psychological) potential
> developers to work with our in-development code.  Even moving to svn is
> doing this for some projects.

The advantage of bzr is local branches.  It's a lot easier to keep work on 
your computer and have it still be version controlled.  When I do a lot of 
changes and I hate it when I can't check them in at the end of the day. 
CVS branching might be doable but it's tricky.

I think SVN is popular enough at this point that it would be 
uncontroversial change for most people.

It's also pretty easy to do two-way synchoronization between bzr and cvs 
(there is a program called "tailor" that replays changesets from one 
version control system to another).  So we could keep a read-only cvs repo 
and use bzr for development.  *I* would like to use bzr, assuming the new 
version sorts out various issues I have with the current 0.7 version.

At least we're slowing converging on a consensus :-)

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