I prefer darcs, as well, actually. On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:34 -0500, Ian Eslick wrote:
> I've used SVN a fair bit although I find managing branches in SVN to be > quite annoying. I prefer darcs, actually, but am happy to use > Subversion - any other elephant users want to chime in on this? > > Here's a set of Trac issues for UCW for example. > http://trac.common-lisp.net/ucw/report/1 > > There's also a WIKI to keep the TODO file and DESIGN file contents live > instead of hiding in the source tree. I'm all for switching to Trac > sooner rather than later. > > Google has also put together a nice environment for hosting, but I think > common-lisp.net is where folks go looking for lisp code. 0.6.1 is > probably a few weeks away (although with x86 mac & parallels I can test > all the lisp+os variations locally now; that should speed up the > debugging cycle as I can reproduce anything except 64-bit problems > locally - I think Marco and I resolved that) > > Unicode: > > By the way, I'm just cleaning up the last of my unicode updates. I kept > having problems with the efficiency hacks in the current support for > Unicode -- there was no canonical representation of strings in the > database; each lisp+machine coded it differently. Also, even though > most strings have codes in the ASCII or Latin-1 character set, SBCL was > still storing 32-bit characters. It now uses the smallest coding size > (8,16 or 32) necessary to represent the string. Support for 8 or 16 is > fairly efficient but if you use unicode code pages > 0 there will be a > performance and storage hit. I put in a convention in where all 16/32 > bit unicode strings are stored little-endian (x86 is a little-endian > machine) so I can use native string reader functions to pull shorts and > ints out of the byte vectors when possible. This should greatly compact > string storage on most unicode supporting systems (2x on allegro, 4x on > SBCL). > > More string efficiency hacks coming your way soon... > > Cheers, > Ian > > Robert L. Read wrote: > > Yes. > > > > I think we should probably do this. I am not experienced with > > subversion, and know nothing > > about Trac, but using a mailing list for everything is a concept we > > need to outgrow. > > > > > > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 07:59 +0100, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > >> If I ain't mistaken, currently Elephant only has a CVS, and no bug > >> tracker of any sort. > >> > >> Before or after 0.6.1, could you consider switching to subversion and > >> trac, as they are provided by common-list.net? It could help possible > >> contributors to see what remains to be done (comments and attached > >> patches to issues, assignments, etc.). > >> > >> Curiously, > >> Nowhere man > >> _______________________________________________ > >> elephant-devel site list > >> elephant-devel@common-lisp.net <mailto:elephant-devel@common-lisp.net> > >> http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel > >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > elephant-devel site list > > elephant-devel@common-lisp.net > > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel > _______________________________________________ > elephant-devel site list > elephant-devel@common-lisp.net > http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel
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