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Dan Armak wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:21, Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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>> But if you have the impression, that it is not ready yet (although they |
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>> are self-hosting for years), you could also take a look at Perforce |
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>> (www.perforce.com). It is already in portage. Although it is commercial |
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>> and closed source, it is free for OSS development [...] |
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> Our social contract says "Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of |
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> software unless it conforms to... some license approved by the Open Source |
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> Initiative (OSI.)". |
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> Even if you read that to mean only what users have to use and not |
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> developers, I for one very much don't want to have to use non-free |
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> software to develop with Gentoo. |
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> Besides, the Perforce terms are that you have to sign a license agreement |
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> to get these free licenses, and the agreement is good for one year. Every |
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> year they give you a new agreement to sign, and there are no rules on how |
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> they may change these agreements. I'd not want to bind Gentoo to something |
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> like that. |
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Well, my point was: Don't use software (MCVS) that has meanwhile more than |
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one compatibility wrappers to solve problems that are based in the |
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architecture of the underlaying system. While I know Perforce (and its |
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reliability) quite well and I know it is used in OSS development, I just |
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want at least have spent a comment on it. If you consider the usage terms |
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as evil, well, that's fine with me, but then take a really serious look at |
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the "second" best solution. |
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As mensioned Subversion is self-hosting since more than a year now and also |
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used in the wild. Its architecture is somewhat similar to Perforce and it |
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is made by people, that learned from developing CVS. |
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I also had a look at arch some time ago, but AFAICS it was a bunch of |
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scripts and small apps working together. And when I looked at the former |
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two main developers flaming each other I was really upset how someone could |
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even consider using this peace of software, since my imression was, that |
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none of them would be really capable of creating a community around their |
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code. And that's IMHO the main risk. |
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Regards, |
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Jörg |
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