2cents from somebody who is not actively developing at the moment.

It seems that there are different ideas of how CVS should be used.
one extreme is to commit as early as possible and have review of the new code 
when it is in CVS, the other is to commit only those changes that are 
collectively agreed upon beforehand and that are tested on the developer's 
local codebase extensively.

Either way can work, but everybody has to agree to use the same approach.
Another option is to make different branches in CVS. One is the hit-and-run 
experimental-testing branch, the other is the release branch. Csound5 might 
be reaching the point where a release branch is in order. That branch should 
work and compile. 
But maybe this just moves the problem to the time where you want to merge the 
two. 
As an outsider I do feel a lack of explicit status-reports and a release 
schedule: where is csound5 now, what still has to be done, who is responsible 
for which part etc
John, maybe you could state which bits need to be stable for you to work on 
the parser.

regards

Gerard



On Thursday 28 April 2005 08:09, jpff@codemist.co.uk wrote:
> The problem is that we do not work together in real time.  I overlap
> with Steven sometimes, but otherwise there is no reasonable
> time-meeting.  My Csound development time at present is 0430 to 0800
> Universal time.  It also coincides with reading e-mail time.
>   Like Richard Dobson I know nothing about IRC.  Never used it, no
> idea how to use it.  man -k shows nothing.  I like e-mail as it allows
> time to think, consider the message, refine it.  With my dyslexia
> direct typing is usually incomprehensible, while with email I can sit a
> spelling checker in line to correct many of the errors.  You will not
> see the spelling I have just used for "like", or how long it takes to
> spell dyslexia!
> ==John ffitch


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