Had a good day today with arch and all this Planet hacking. First off, I had
to merge Scott’s changes into my tree. I had made a few touch-ups here and
there, so Scott’s changes were based on a slightly older revision. Merged
without a hitch, despite some dunderheaded mistakes on my part. I was going
to make sure it worked on Python 2.1, so I worked on a different machine by
pulling the archive over, and merging changes back. Then I decided that
making it work on Python 2.1 was dunderheaded too, so I reversed the stupid
changes and started hacking on the interesting stuff. Tonight, I’m going to
pull my GARNOME and Planet trees off onto my iBook so I can hack on them
this week while I’m at linux.conf.au.
So, while arch can sometimes be inscrutable and petulant, and has a definite
learning curve for the average Free Software CVS refugee, it’s working for
me, and I’m going to keep working with it. Will arch be in GNOME’s future? I
think there are some pretty compelling reasons to try; but it will need more
support for visualisation and code browsing/searching tools (like LXR,
Bonsai) to really sell it.
As Edd would say: Sticking with arch.
