Hello Mark
On 27/01/2005, you wrote:
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The csh & tsch ports we currently have require alot of work to make them, well, work, so those are a dead end, when the time comes we'll need to revisit this issue, but for now it's best we focus on tasks we can use on the short term.
Sorry for missing the meeting on Monday, I broke down in the fast lane on the M1. A rather harrowing experience I can tell you. Onto the message
Whilst I hate to contradict our benevolent dictator, this could be a mistake why?
You dare question my authority?! j/k ;)
well, whilst its very good to get the other utilities(dependancies) ported and it will provide some output for the project (always a good thing), if we dont start thinking about csh/tcsh now, and getting something at least started we will come to a point (fairly rapidly from what i can tell - at least as far as projects go) where we will come to a complete stop because of their lack of availability. What we should be doing is using a schedules to plan when we will be doing something about the issue, now we obviously cant plan based on time, as all the programmers are doing this in their spare time, we can do it based on acheivements (provided the project plan is set up correctly), so ie when 50% of dependancies are complete we need to start on build environment etc. This is one of the reasons it makes sense to have a top level porject (say dependencies) and then sub projects for all of the apps that need porting, you can then see at a glance the percentage complete of the dependencies top level project.
That was actually what i had in mind, port a fair deal of the dependencies, focussing on the more directyl usuable ones, and when a good amount of them are done, then reinitiate the csh development.
However, Jurgen has offered to continue on the csh/tcsh part, and i've agreed to let him work it out, the rest of us can continue with their currently assigned tasks.
As for the project layout, you do raise a good point (the better overview of the achieved work), i'll get back to you about that after i had some food
This also applies to the bash shell (abc-shell??) which will be needed to help port the dependancies I believe (along with automake/conf etc)
SieGel is investigating automake and related tools.
Regards