We have been considering migrating Xaraya to the creole abstraction layer in the future. Creole is similar to the adodb library we use now. Originally the support for Creole was created to be able to implement a MS-SQL proof of concept quickly. After using the library for a bit I found it much easier to work with than …

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Feature: No More Free BitKeeper: Linus, not interested in a one sided deal even when he's on the winning side, decided for this and other reasons to migrate away from BitKeeper and to begin looking for an alternative. It will be interesting to see how this works out.

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Chris Rathjen : Team Foundation vs. Subversion: Shelving Chris compares the two different mechanisms used for a concept introduced in Team Foundation (TFS) known as Shelving. It is a concept where you put a certain state of your development environment ( workspace, repository, whatever the local term is you are used …

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Some hours ago my changeset number 1000 went into the xaraya repository. As you can see in the comments, it's not a good one, basically cleaning up some mess i made earlier that day. Nevertheless, it's there

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Using a script from Bryan O'Sullivans bitkeeper repository we integrated the bitkeeper repositories for Xaraya with our bugzilla installation. The script is used as a trigger everytime changes are committed to the main repositories on the server and scans the changeset comments for text fragments mentioning bugs. When …

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