From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2005-03-14T08:20:33+09:00
Subject: [ANN] FastCST 3.0 (Now w/ meta-data, get, and put)

Hi All,

Just a quick announcement to say that I've put up another release of
FastCST for interested folks to play with:

http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/fastcst

Fast Change Set Tool (FastCST, pronounced "fascist") is an experimental
changeset tool I'm writing in Ruby.  It uses suffix arrays to create
deltas and supports meta-data and simple distribution of changesets.

This 0.3 version supports:

* Full YAML based meta-data for the changesets.  Check out
http://www.zedshaw.com/fastcst/ruby-snapshot.yaml for an example.
* A "get" command that will get a changeset based on a meta-data file
and apply to a directory.
    - There's an example which let's you move a Ruby 1.8.2 source tree
to the nightly snapshot.
* A "put" command which will log into an FTP site and put a changeset
online.
* Files are MD5 digested before applied to help detect alteration (don't
trust it yet though since someone can just change the meta-data).

The get and put commands deal only with the meta-data file, so they
aren't too cumbersome.

Please play with it if you have time and let me know what you think.

Zed A. Shaw