Source/Version Control

[Invictus3593]

Originally Posted by Ben Klebe

The only other concern with using GitHub is the privacy of our code, which may be a non-issue. I haven't decided yet. Does every team open their source during build season?

I'm not sure privacy would be a real issue. Your team's programmers and their mentor should be the only ones who know where the code is and as long as they don't go post the link somewhere online, I don't think it would be easy for the public to find your code on GitHub.

[Ben Klebe]

Originally Posted by Invictus3593

I'm not sure privacy would be a real issue. Your team's programmers and their mentor should be the only ones who know where the code is and as long as they don't go post the link somewhere online, I don't think it would be easy for the public to find your code on GitHub.

Exactly. The question is whether we want security and privacy or scantily guaranteed pseudo-privacy.

Given how I'm not even sure how to set up a LabVIEW repository on GitHub in the first place, as well as the fact that you can get Perforce for free with ~20 users, I'm almost convinced I should just get into the morass of converting my desktop into an Apache server with Ubuntu Server and Perforce. I could use it to host our website too.

Anyone else here have any advice for LabVIEW vs Java? The benefits I see of LabVIEW are ease of learning, ease of debugging, and data collection. The only benefit I can really see of Java would be support, but people here are probably more experienced with it than I am.

[The Doctor]

Originally Posted by Ben Klebe

Given how I'm not even sure how to set up a LabVIEW repository on GitHub in the first place.

Github can host any files, even executables. LabView should be no problem.

[Landonh12]

This year 364 used a BitBucket mercurial repository with TortoiseHg Workbench. You can commit, push, pull, and merge, but you obviously can't see changes without opening the code. Commit messages are really important since you can't see changes on the fly.

TortoiseHg: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/
BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/

Screenshot of TortoiseHg from our repository: http://i.imgur.com/QhCvkhm.png/