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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:31:34 +0100 |
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"Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o> wrote: |
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> Although I don't know darcs at all in terms of use and feature, I |
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> would really suggest to _not_ use it. For a simple reason, actually: |
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> cvs has almost no cost added, as it's present on every major |
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> distribution, system and operating system, being well known and |
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> written in plain C with just a few dependencies; svn has a bit more |
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> costs, as it requires apr, berkdb and neon, but it's also available |
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> on a wide range of different system because it's also in C mainly. |
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If you're suggesting CVS as the second VCS (i.e. in addition to SVN) |
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then I don't see the point - SVN is simply a better CVS and clients |
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should be available on the alt platforms. |
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> Darcs, instead, is written in Haskell, which means you need |
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> architectures that supports Haskell, and in which it's stable enough |
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> to work... considering we have Gentoo/Alt, it's not that good to |
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> "cut" us off (yes I know I should be able to make Gentoo/FreeBSD and |
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> maybe other arches to have ghc, but that's not easy and not on my top |
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> priority list, while support for overlays can be useful.. for a while |
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> we needed java overlay to get kaffe, for example). |
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This is a valid issue, as ghc is only supplied upstream for linux (some |
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older versions available in mingw32). |
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> I would be more in favour of GNU arch derived like bzr (bazaar-ng) or |
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> mercurial, that are written in Python. While we should know that |
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> saying "being interpreted means it runs anyway" doesn't fly, a |
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> working python is already a strict requirement (portage, anyone?) and |
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> it's way less pain that ghc, IMHO. |
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> I'm also sure bzr works fine on FreeBSD, DragonFly and OSX as I've |
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> tried it myself.. |
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Language issues aside, it makes sense to support a distributed VCS in |
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addition to SVN, as that would provide a useful alternative. There's a |
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quick comparison at http://bazaar-vcs.org/RcsComparisons. Of the |
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alternatives to Bazaar-NG, Mercurial (at |
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http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/) looks most interesting, not least |
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because it claims fast local and network performance, which bazaar-ng |
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doesn't. |
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Kevin F. Quinn |
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