Re: [Enigma-devel] TLA on windows

[Daniel Heck]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 15:34:19 -0500 Tacvek wrote:

> The following is a long story about my adventures of checking out Enigma on 
> windows. I believe it may be necessary to rethink the use of Arch, despite 
> it being technologically superior.  (As you will find out by reading below 
> arch does not come anywhere near the quality of the other GNU software, and 
> IMHO it disgraces the name of GNU.)

Having just had a fierce struggle with gettext/libintl I think I can
easily refute that claim... compared to that piece of crap, Arch really
shines!

Anyway.  I switched to Arch because it simplified my work.  Maybe
Subversion would have been a better long-term solution, but at the time
I made the decision, Arch had a vastly better Emacs mode, so Subversion
was out.

I agree that it has many rough edges and I'm extremely glad I don't have
to use it on Windows.  On the other hand, it makes my life so much
easier that I think it's worth the occasional trouble.  For quite a long
time now I have been basically the only one actively working on the
source code, even back when we used CVS, and I regularly spent half an
hour and more to check in a few simple changes.  

Everyone is free to provide an Arch-CVS or Arch-Subversion gateway, and
I would be willing to provide snapshot releases on a more regular basis.
But for me, the technical superiority of Arch compared to CVS *is* an
important argument.  I spend more time on Enigma than is healthy
anyway :-)

Sorry...
Daniel