Source hosting

[Sonarpulse 1]

I was thinking that the way the collaborative nature of this project has grown with the translations and whatnot, it might make sense to start keeping some of it on Github, where hifi hosts his stuff, or something similar. Not only would that make translation easier, but Solo's mission catalog could also be put up there, and maybe even the core project with Nyergud's IDA database.

 

Obviously it's your project Nyerguds, and thus your decision, but with the latest, patch, it seems the project has finished most of the preexisting bug fixes and obvious enhancements, and now is entering a more general enhancement and working-out-the-kinks phase, if that makes any sense. I figure that makes this a good time to do something like this.

[Nyerguds 102]

It has no source though. I edit the exe directly. And the tons of files I keep my hacks in are far too chaotic to call real source code.

[Sonarpulse 1]

Oh, I know you have little pretty code to look at. But aren't IDA databases pretty self-contained? I guess you said you used ollydbg to which would complicate things.

[Nyerguds 102]

I don't use olly. But overall I see no reason to put it publicly like that.

[Chimas 7]

I've created an account to explore it and see how it works.

[Sonarpulse 1]

Solo: Sweet, it does make especially good since for the single player mission because A) they are text. The project is inherently collaborative because it depends on other people to dig up more single player missions.

 

I don't use olly. But overall I see no reason to put it publicly like that.

Ok. It's your work and your choice so I won't press you.

[Nyerguds 102]

I've used SVN before... seemed much more straightforward than github.

 

Also, versioning systems are kinda meant for tracking differences in text. Using them for binary files kinda defeats the purpose.

[Sonarpulse 1]

SVN vs git, it comes down to personal preference. Those are the two I have used, I like prefer git simply because I understand the benefits of distributed version control and don't understand the detriments. At first i thought Github must be a complete mess, with no authoritative project master fork. But anyone can make another account, flag it as an organization and treat it as the master, and that helps keep things sensible. If you were hosting a repository I would totally understand the use of SVN, the centralization makes sense.

 

For binary files, yes you have do all the merging manually, so I guess the main benefit is backing up incase one makes a mistake. Overkill? Yeah. I dunno, I guess it's like keeping a journal, there is something satisfying about committing.

Edited December 29, 2011 by Sonarpulse

[pichorra 4]

Yeah! OpenSource FTW!

[Sonarpulse 1]

we may not all be as qualified, but we do want to help