Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

Patricia Shanahan wrote:
My current project is a one-person project, part of my academic
research. I keep a subversion repository for it on a university server,
which provides both a revision history and an off-site backup. I use an
ssh tunnel so that the files in transfer to/from the server are encrypted.

And you probably wouldn't if the following weren't true:
a) You were already familiar with this sort of thing, as a result of
larger projects;
b) All of this stuff, including the hosting, you were not paying extra
for;
c) You're familiar enough with setting up things like ssh tunnels and
security precautions to trust yourself to do this stuff without
screwing it up and letting every Tom, ***, and Harry with a rootkit
and subscription to 2600 get in by mistake.

:)
I can't actually state anything about what you would or wouldn't do
with certainty, though; it's entirely possible that you happen to be
atypical in this area anyway.

I realize that this may not be a good time to experiment with revision
control for you, but do not eliminate the idea just because you are
working on a one-person project. I don't think it would take you weeks
to learn.

I never said I was "eliminating the idea", only questioning its being
anything but overkill and added work for little gain in the context of
this specific project. But then, that seems to be a recurring
misunderstanding around here, where my not jumping up all enthused and
immediately going and doing something is interpreted as a permanent
rejection of that thing for some reason, or at least my asking a
question is interpreted as a permanent rejection. (I would expect it
should be more indicative of some sort of (possibly guarded) interest;
outright rejection would probably not involve questions at all, other
than the rhetorical variety, and most likely would involve either
blanket unconditional flat refusals or just silence.)

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