[ABE.pm] Programming Project, maybe in Ruby

[Ricardo SIGNES]

* Randy Kramer <rhkramer at gmail.com> [2004-12-02T11:48:56]
> I have a specific project in mind, but don't want to talk much about
> it pending assessment of interest and whether we might to consider
> some form of licensing to make money on the initial sales of the
> software.  (Barring that, I'd probably favor using the GPL, and maybe
> collecting copyrights in one "legal entity" for possible multi
> licensing.

I won't work on non-Free software unless I'm paid, fwiw.

> The project might be described as modeled after askSam, but with the
> things I've seen since I started my sojourn into Linux, I have quite a
> few modifications in mind.

Can you give a bit of an explanation?  I've never used "askSam."

> The last time I used source control it was Microsoft's source safe.  I
> need to learn CVS or something better (and other modern programming
> tools) to make the project as "professional" as possible.  (The point
> of this paragraph is that I need help learning how to use and setup
> such tools.)

Subversion is a simple, popular solution these days.  Free, including
its book -- both beerwise and speechwise.

-- 
rjbs
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