FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: Organizational question

[Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

Mikael Jansson wrote:
> > Do you use the old R5 client (2002.x?) or the new 2004.2 one? Does
> > someone know when the new 2004.2 client will be available?
> >
> Hm, looking at ftp.perforce.com, there seems to be at least _something_
> newever available.

Yep:

$ ./p4 -V
Perforce - The Fast Software Configuration Management System.
Copyright 1995, 2004 Perforce Software.  All rights reserved.
Rev. P4/ZETAX86/2004.2/69137 (2004/09/17).
$ getlibs p4
/boot/develop/tools/gnupro/bin/objdump: p4: no symbols
libsocket.so
libroot.so
libbind.so

So, it's working fine under R5 *with* BONE.
I guess older version (still) works fine with R5 with net_server.

Plus, for CVS-addict, there's a CVS-like frontend to p4:
http://www.bebits.com/app/2415

And don't forget the p4 tracker's add-ons for those who are not keyboard
cowboyzzz. Unfortunatly, they used to be on BeBits at
http://www.bebits.com/app/1626, but it's no more the case. I guess it still can
be found around on the web, BeShare... and on my hard disk ;-)

These tools can help people get used quicker to Perforce usage, lower a learning
curve I suspect being not so high anyway.
But that would be true too if someone cook up equivalent add-ons for CVS too ;-)

However, such move shouldn't slow all of us or it clearly don't worth it.

PS: I dream after a Versioning system able to take avantage of BFS attributes,
queries and Tracker integration for a far better BeOS-way of doing things
clever and cleaner... Ah, dreaming ;-)

- Philippe