[MKSearch-dev] Project plan

[Chris Croome]

Hi Phil

On Mon 11-Oct-2004 at 12:26:31PM +0100, Phil Shaw wrote:
> 
> The most useful stuff you could do for me to begin with is
> sound-out my queries on licencing, working conventions you have,
> etc. and setting up a MK Doc site for the project. If you don't
> mind, I'd like to short-cut some personal research and just ask
> you.

OK.

> BTW, is this "MKSearch" or "MK Search"?

MKSearch I guess...

> > mksearch.mkdoc.org might make sense?
> 
> I'll go with this. Normally Java packages only use the TLD and
> primary domain, not the sub-domain, so it'll be
> "org.mkdoc.packagename".

Hmm, well best just used mkdoc.org I guess, to be honest I still
don't undersand why people didn't want to use mksearch.org...

> > Of course we would need to set this email address up ;-)
> 
> Should I set up a signature file to use? What's the format?

You sig is totally up to you, put what you want in it :-)

> > reading a thread here about the problem with GPL code using BSD
> > libraries...
> 
> This is the main task I'm on today. Researching and documenting a
> GPL development environment. Is it intended to use the GPL licence
> for this, 

Yes I think so.

> and does this mean that all components must be GPL? 

No, but it get's a bit complicated... this should help:

  http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

> All okay so far, but I haven't compiled a byte yet... that's step
> two.

:-)

> Does subversion have a way to automatically version-number source
> code as it is uploaded?

Yes, this can be done, there are some notes here that explain how to
do it from the command line:

  http://wiki.slugbug.org.uk/Subversion#Setting_properties

See the book for more on this:

  http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook-1.1/ch07s02.html

Chris

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