12 Jan
2022
12 Jan
'22
2:36 a.m.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:26:12PM -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote:
Larry McVoy writes:
I wrote the GUIs for BitKeeper, I could absolutely give you exactly
what you want. Really, what you are describing is our code review
system which could done done completely in a web browser but if you
needed to hack on things, you cloned it and hacked on it and pushed.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:15:43PM -0800, Jon
Steinhart wrote:
Well, you're correct, but not practical with human editors. I'm not
talking about revision history, I'm talking about the ability to easily
highlight a portion of text and comment "did you mean foo?" and so on.
That part of the production process feedback loop is missing. Of course,
with *roff one could mostly produce one's own stuff without needing human
editors and a production staff. The big thing missing from *roff from a
publishing point of view is
a good way to make comments and respond to them. Kind of a must-have
when working with human (not text) editors.
Source code control for the win.