Re: [generguide-devel] <xinclude> links

[Cameron S. <ca...@sh...>]

On Sunday 14 Sep 2003 8:10 pm, Sean Wheller wrote:
> The permeations of this theory can spin our heads for
> a year. So I ask the
> question. Is CVS the tool for the job? Perhaps we need
> CVS and an XML
> Database, maybe just the database with an application
> layer above it. CMS
> and KMS? What tools do we recommended and what tools
> do we use.

CVS is the de-facto standard of open source projects.  It is likely to be 
replace by subversion in a year or 2, however subversion is just a rewrite of 
CVS and will have CVS imports.
Hence it would take a lot to convince me that we should not use CVS.

With regards to releases and whether we access sections on a per file basis or 
per release basis:
Ie, should we reference:
/project/<release>/file.xml
or
/project/file_<version>.xml

Again, I refer to convensions in releasing standards and software libraries.  
In both cases, projects convensionally provide releases.  It is possible for 
the version of a file in one release to be the same in the next release.

While I acknowledge that documentation could logically be released on a per 
file basis, it would make referencing the documentation more complicated.
In this case, I think we should sacrifice flexibility in order to Keep It 
Simple.

-- 
Cameron Shorter              http://cameron.shorter.net
Open Source Developer        http://generguide.sourceforge.net
                             http://mapbuilder.sourceforge.net
                             http://geotools.org
Senior Software Engineer     http://www.adi-limited.com