[mapguide-internals] RE: RFC 111 - Deploy Viewer Code with Subversion Attributes

[Martin Morrison]

Late response due to being on vacation a few days.

Here are the differences as I see it.

Subversion:

1) Need to install client.
2) Need to know how to use said client.  Do you really think users will RTM vs ask the list?
3) SVN repository can change without warning.  (been there, done that.  the programmer said it was a minor formatting change, too bad he had a typo.)

Standalone app.

1) User downloads and runs.

Yes, in theory one could use a programmer's tool to make changes to a production system.  Is it the easiest for the enduser?

Martin Morrison
Application Engineer
Engineering Design Systems, Inc.
3780 Peters Creek Rd Ext SW
Roanoke, VA  24018
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-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Zac Spitzer
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:22 PM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] RE: RFC 111 - Deploy Viewer Code with Subversion Attributes

Yes this is only intended for minor updates & fixes

But seriously, as Jackie said, your describing exactly what a
subversion client does?

On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Martin Morrison
<martin.morrison at edsi.com> wrote:
> No, I'm talking about a standalone updater.  Not using a subversion client.
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng [jumpinjackie at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 10:00 PM
> To: mapguide-internals at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: [mapguide-internals] RE: RFC 111 - Deploy Viewer Code with     Subversion      Attributes
>
> Uh, I think you've just described what subversion (and any other SCM) can do
> for you, which is the motivation of Zac's RFC.
>
> To include the .svn directories as part of the viewer installation (these
> are currently excluded when building the installer). That way you can pull
> in updates/fixes to these files if you have a subversion client.
>
> - Jackie
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