[SourceJammer-users] Re: SourceJammer

[Robert M. <rob...@ya...>]

Hi, Abraham.

Excellent work on the documentation. Thanks a lot for
doing that. If you could take the time to "genericize"
that doc and possibly add a section on how to add a
new archive, that would be truly excellent. If not, I
can definitely work with what you've got.

One thing a lot of people seem to get confused about
is the relationship between an archive on the server
(Tools|Make Archive) and the archive info stored on
your local computer (Connection|Maintain Archive
List). Anything you could write (or suggest to me) to
clear that up would be great.

As for joing SourceForge, it's easy. Just go to
sourceforge.net and open an account. If you have time
to contribute to the gui, that would be great. If you
just want to see what makes it tick and mess around
with it for your own purposes, you are welcome to do
that by downloading the source code.

I've remove the link to your doc in case you did not
want the address published here. I will copy the doc
and put it into my own SourceJammer archive.

By the way, a couple of comments:

That recursive misspelling (resursive) is pretty
funny. I must've looked at that a million times
without noticing it. I'll try to get in a fix for
1.1.0.

Selecting the wrong file type when you add a file
(text for a binary file or vice versa) will not result
in garbled files being returned from SourceJammer if
you select binary for a text file. I've never tried
storing a binary file as text, so I have not idea what
might happen if you did that.

SJ will happily overwrite a file on your local machine
that does not match the version it is downloading as
long as that file is flagged as read-only. This may
seem counter-intuitive, but SJ assumes that someone is
working on a file that is writable and is not working
on one set to read-only (since it sets files to
read-only when it checks them in or does a get and
only sets files to writable when it checks them out).
If you try to get a file and you have a local version
of that file that is writable, you'll get a dialog
asking you if you want to overwrite the file. This
behavior should be completely consistent.

Anyway, thanks for your contribution. And thanks for
using SJ. 

--Rob

--- Abraham Fowler <ab...@fo...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would just like to tell you that we have been
> using your SourceJammer 
> project for our team project in a graduate-level
> software engineering 
> course, and we like the project.  I would especially
> like to have the 
> privilege of perhaps tinkering around with some of
> the code, 
> particularly the GUI code.  I am new to SourceForge,
> perhaps you could 
> give me some pointers as to how to get started
> there?
> 
> Another item: You mention on your site that you
> don't have end-user 
> docs, so I went ahead and created a simple tutorial
> for our team's 
> internal use.  If you would like to check it out, it
> is at 
> <snip> 
> It may not be there 
> for long after the spring semester of 2002, however.
>  If you would like 
> to take this tutorial as a starting point and
> customize it yourself, 
> feel free to do so.  In fact, if you would like, I'd
> be willing to 
> donate a few hours to help out on the end-user docs.
>  I am busy too, so 
> I can't guarantee too much, but I am interested in
> the project enough 
> that I think I could find some time.
> 
> Thanks for your work, and keep it up!
> 
> Abraham Fowler
> 


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