Next week, Veracity will have been self-hosting for one full year. We began dogfooding Veracity on May 24th, 2010. We think it’s gotten pretty decent, and we’re ready to extend its audience beyond the people willing to build it themselves from source.

The following installers are available:

• Windows msi:
• 32-bit installers support XP and later
• 64-bit installers support Vista and later
• non-privileged installers: current Windows user only, no administrative rights required
• Linux deb packages supporting Ubuntu 10.04 and later (32 and 64-bit)
• Intel Mac universal dmg (32 or 64-bit)

As before, the source tarball is also there.

Note that on Windows, the Tortoise client is still a work in progress and therefore isn’t installed. If you’re building veracity from source, however, the Tortoise client is in there.

Changes we’ve made since the 0.7.0 release last month include:

• The server can be put in a read-only mode
• Several server stability bug fixes
• Lots of bug fixes in the command-line interface
• Lots of bug fixes in the web interface
• Overhaul of vv branch syntax. Type “vv help branch” for details.
• Added branch and file history filters to web interface
• Tortoise client has a functional history dialog

Previous users of Veracity should also be aware that branches changed significantly. Branches created with an 0.7.0 build won’t be visible with an 0.9.0 binary. If you want to keep them, make a note of them before upgrading and re-add them with “vv branch add-head”. As noted above, “vv branch help” gives full detail on the new branch syntax.

There was some debate among the team as to whether we should call this a public beta. The software is beta quality: there are no known serious bugs, but we still have some tinkering to do. And it’s not quite feature complete. With a little luck (and lots of hard work) next month’s release will be feature complete. At that point it will unequivocally be a public beta.

This is a big milestone for the team here at SourceGear. Let us know what you think!

• Visual Studio 2008 support
• Tags in Fortress

A more exhaustive list of changes is here.

Several of the Evil Mastermind ads have featured SourceGear employees as minions. I make an appearance as Minion 72 in Episode 8, which appears in November issues of Dr. Dobb’s and MSDN.

The people who created this comic claim it’s coincidence that Detroit is one of the banishment buttons, despite the fact that I spent 15 years there before moving to Champaign. I’m skeptical. I just think none of them want to admit responsibility. My wife nearly started a brawl when she overheard someone badmouthing Detroit after the Michigan-Illinois game Saturday. If she finds out whose idea it was, there could definitely be trouble. She looks sweet, but don’t be fooled.
]]> http://ianolsen.com/2007/10/25/being-a-minion/feed/ 2 ianolsen Superman Minion http://ianolsen.com/2006/06/28/the-power-of-the-marginal/ http://ianolsen.com/2006/06/28/the-power-of-the-marginal/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:39:54 +0000 Ian Olsen https://ianolsen.wordpress.com/2006/06/28/the-power-of-the-marginal/ ]]> “Work like a dog being taken for a walk, instead of an ox being yoked to the plow.” —Paul Graham, in his latest, The Power of the Marginal

I found this essay inspirational. It’s no great leap to consider SourceGear, a small software company out on the prairie, fitting Graham’s definition of marginal.