New utility to make submitting changes to ROOL easier

I’ve produced a new utility that should help make it easier to submit changes back to ROOL.

Basically before you start changing a component, you make a copy of it suffixed with o My utility will then check to see what’s been changed between them and will produce a suitable archive/log file for emailing to ROOL. It also automatically ignores the common o/obj/rm/aif/abs directories that are used during the build process.

This utility is called ROOLsrc and is available for downloading at: http://www4.webng.com/resurgam/ROOLsrc000.zip

I considered using the timestamp of the directory for comparisons (which will be set to when you de-archive) but I think that having a copy of the unchanged component is possibly useful.

I have also updated my lanman98 file conversion utility to deal with the way ROOL archives have text files with no suffix. This is available at: http://www4.webng.com/resurgam/LM98Util101.zip

I don’t understand – what advantage does this have over using Subversion or CVS? (The later being what ROOL use for the sources anyway.)

Er, I’m using the Tarballs.

AIUI currently the only way you can submit changes to ROOL is a zip file containing the changed files.