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January 14, 2005
Automating monotony
You'd think, for someone with a computer science postgrad, that I would have a good grip on how to, y'know, make software. Not to mention the various bits and pieces that make that process easier, like some system to keep track of different versions and changes made. An invisible archivist. CVS, for example. But, me being me, I'm not the type to download the most popular version and get started without thinking twice about it. Oh no. Instead, why not read about it, find out if it's really that good, and get a list of alternatives together? That way, rather than having something actually up and running, boredom will set in and I'll start doing something else. Right.
Then the excellent Rui Carmo of The Tao of Mac put up a great list of open source apps to 'watch' (or whatever the equivalent activity of keeping track of applications as they develop is called). On them is the intriguing Monotone CVS analogue (though it's peer-to-peer rather than client-server) and I'm sold. I'm a P2P kind of guy, after all. Plus it ties in with current project ideas.
Of course, when I say 'sold' I mean I downloaded and printed off their manual. But I've bound it and everything! Look at the shiny cover!
Posted by Oliver at January 14, 2005 12:35 PM
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