Leadership By Numbers :: CVS Review and the Dream of DXL

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Stephan Wissel gave a great, just-right, presentation on DXL at this years Lotusphere. DXL is getting better and better, and Stephan called attention to a lot of impressive capabilities--including the ability to have a binary export for complete check-out and check-in necessary in versioning systems. Domino's awkward ability to support versioning is one of the criticisms that other programmers level against Notes development.

Some people are using Subversion or Team Studio for their CVS, and I thought of Wissels' talk when I read a recent review of Distributed CVS platforms by Robert Fendt. Domino 8.5 is almost there, in providing full DXL/XML export, for round-trip fidelity. It was one of the highest rated feature-adds discussed at Lotusphere (and listed in Idea Jam by Rocky Oliver). A full featured CVS system would just be one benefit of a complete DXL/XML model, but it would be a tremendous asset to Domino development.

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Posted by Jack Dausman On 01/29/2009 | Permalink

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2 - Well, there's no backing out now, is there ! You remember at the same session, it was later asked if efforts should be put into a Mac/Linux full client, or full DXL. I'm a Ubuntu fanboy, but I was with the crowd on getting full DXL transparency.

Posted by jack dausman At 04:36:38 AM On 01/30/2009 | - Website - |

1 - And the nice thing ? Mr Brent Peters of IBM - the compere of 'Meet the Developer' committing to fixing DXL over the next few releases.

His blog is at:

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---* Bill

Posted by Bill At 02:53:23 AM On 01/29/2009 | - Website - |