Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Andre Poenitz wrote: > >> > Another question is what version of LyX the students should work >> > with... it could be frustrating working with the CVS version >> > since it's in a very fluctuating state (e.g. sometimes it doesn't >> > even compile). >> >> Everything else would leave us with the need of forward-porting 50 >> new features. If we stick to 1.3.xcvs we'd end up in the same >> situation as the change tracking patch. Works for some ancient >> version only. >> >> 1.4.0cvs is stable enough for this kind of work. > > I was thinking more along the lines of giving the students a branch > to work on... then they'd all be working with the same code, and the > code wouldn't change under their feet.
Be warned. Long-lived branches (of the order of a month and more) are a nightmare to merge back into the main tree when the main tree is moving fast. Personally, I think that regular 'cvs update's of a private tree is pretty painless. Angus (speaking as one who has learnt the hard way)
