Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-09-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag 12 September 2008 06:10:07 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > One very simple idea: An adventure game where your interface for > > decision making is in fact your file system. > > [...] > > This is a funny idea indeed :-) Maybe some day - or maybe someone else will have a go at it :) > Hm

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-09-12 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:43:19AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Dienstag 09 September 2008 09:48:56 schrieb > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > One very simple idea: An adventure game where your interface for > decision making is in fact your file system. [...] This is a funny idea indeed :-

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-09-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag 09 September 2008 09:48:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > These are very good arguments -- and in fact the same ones that make me > argue for extensive use of filesystem interfaces in many contexts! > > Yet I'm not convinced that version control really fits well into a > filesystem interf

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-09-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 10:55:37PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Samstag 30 August 2008 02:55:25 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > It would certainly be possible -- but what's the use? Version > > control is not interactive, nor does it pass around komplex > > structured data -- it's

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-08-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag 30 August 2008 02:55:25 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > It would certainly be possible -- but what's the use? Version control is > not interactive, nor does it pass around komplex structured data -- it's > just the kind of use case for which the main UNIX communication > mechanisms (command

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-08-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:14:10PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > It would be very nice if you could set up a translator that showed > every revision in a seperate directory. Making it almost trivial to > browse a projects history and compare different revisions. Perhaps > even allowin

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-08-29 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:15:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > With translators it would be easily possible to hide version tracking > activity by just stacking a version tracking translator over some > directory. [...] It would certainly be possible -- but what's the use? Version

Re: An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-08-26 Thread Carl Fredrik Hammar
Hello, On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:15:51PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi, > > This is just a general idea which struck me: > > With translators it would be easily possible to hide version tracking > activity > by just stacking a version tracking translator over some directory. >

An idea for versiont racking using translators

2008-08-26 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, This is just a general idea which struck me: With translators it would be easily possible to hide version tracking activity by just stacking a version tracking translator over some directory. A way to control that would then be, to have the translator create virtual files for control. S