“KWARC was!”

I must confess that I’m still using locutor and Subversion in parallel. While that could mean that I do not entirely trust locutor, it also opens my eyes for little differences between both systems. For example, I requested a status report of a working copy, both with Subversion and with locutor:
~/svn/kwarc.eecs/www/projects/swim$ svn st
A images/swim-0.1.png
M index.xml
A download
A download/swim-0.1-bin.zip
A download/swim-0.1-bin.tar.gz
~/svn/kwarc.eecs/www/projects/swim$ loc st
A download
A download/swim-0.1-bin.tar.gz
A download/swim-0.1-bin.zip
A images/swim-0.1.png
M index.xml

I like locutor’s order (first subdirectories, then files) much better, as files in the current directory can easily be overlooked in Subversion’s summary.

Being used to Subversion’s command-line client svn, I don’t want to always type locutor on the command line. Therefore, I created an alias in my shell configuration (e.g. ~/.bashrc):

alias loc=locutor

This assumes that locutor is in the PATH. In my case, I have a directory ~/tools/locutor in the PATH, which is a symbolic link to ~/tools/locutor-<version>. That makes it easier to install new versions and, just in case they should be buggy (which so far has never occurred to me ), switch back to an older version.

I’ve been using locutor around the clock during the last four days of our EU proposal. Well, to be honest, that almost drove our coordinator crazy and, looking back, I do have to admit that it was quite risky to use a young system like locutor when every second counts. Especially, since after installing locutor my SVN version was out-of-date and I couldn’t easily switch back to it.

Nevertheless, besides to little bugs (which will be fixed in the next version), I did not experience any difficulties using the new system. From the installation until the last commit of the proposal, locutor has been working smoothly and reliable. I am looking forward to try out more features. So - keep it coming :0)

~Christine

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Cheers,
Normen Müller (nm)