[Biococoa-dev] Re: Subversion proposal

[Peter Schols]

Hi Charles,

I follow your explanation and I agree with the philosophy of having  
stable tags and a trunk which is work in progress. I see two problems  
though:

- I always see tags as a snapshot of the trunk at a certain point in  
time. With this structure, we'd end up with a tag that has code which  
is not represented in the trunk (the code Alex has submitted). So it  
wouldn't be a snapshot at all. In itself, this might not be a major  
problem, it just seems very confusing to me (but that might be just  
my short-sighted view of version control ;-)).

- The point of including Alex's code into the repository is to be  
able to easily work on it and improve it. If we'd make it a tag, we  
are no longer 'allowed' to modify it (unless we make new tags for  
every little change), defeating the purpose of putting it under  
version control (except for the fact that all code is contained in  
one download). With this approach, we could as well offer Alex's code  
as a download without checking it in. In both cases, the code would  
be virtually 'unchangeable' until we check it into the main trunk.

Again, I'm definitely not a specialist and I think we could either  
include or exclude Alex's code from the repository, either choice is  
OK with me. The point I would like to make here is that if we include  
it, it should also be in the trunk (and we can then make a tag for  
the 1.7 release). Apologies if I'm missing something here.

peter


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