Understood and I just wanted everyone to be very clear about why this "overhead" is in place.
PS: all of this weeks changes from Microsoft employees have been integrated into CVS now. <smile/> -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 23:43 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX CVS Source Don't get me wrong I totally understand, I was just trying to understand how the process worked. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________ From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 05/12/2008 01:13 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX CVS Source Well, the theory is that by following legal guidance now we save ourselves significant amount of pain later. Having to shutdown the WiX toolset because of a patent infringement (which seems to be the worst case these days) would seriously affect everyone's productivity. How would you like to receive the notice, "You product uses the WiX toolset, a patent infringement has been found in the code. Please send us $1,000,000 every 6 months or join us in court where we will sue you out of business." or something like that? Anyway, yeah, it's all overhead but it keeps the project in business so I keep up with it. The alternative (not being allowed to participate in the project) isn't acceptable for me. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 08:36 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX CVS Source Legal stuff != productivity :-) Two repositories would explain the delay between code fixes and them appearing in CVS. It would be nice to get to see changes earlier but I guess you have enough to do without adding to it. Neil Neil Sleightholm X2 Systems Limited [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ________________________________ From: Rob Mensching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 03/12/2008 23:58 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] WiX CVS Source No, there are two masters CVS and a source control system inside Microsoft. This is required because other Microsoft employees are not allowed to work against the Open Source code. I'm responsible for integrating the changes made by Microsoft employees across to CVS and I'm responsible for incorporating changes made by non-Microsoft employees into CVS only after an assignment agreement is signed. Basically, I'm a "desired bottleneck" by Microsoft legal. Fun. -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 14:08 To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] WiX CVS Source On other open source projects I have worked on the source code is updated when bugs are fixed. This gives you the opportunity to see the changes and build the code if you need to work with them or validate them. With WiX this doesn't seem to be the case, the source is not updated until the next release or sometimes after the release. I assume this is because the CVS source is not the main repository but a clone of it. Would it be possible to either update CVS as changes are made or make CVS the master? 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