From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Arendsen Hein Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Subversion Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:55:23 +0100 Message-ID: <20061113105523.GB22987@intevation.de> References: <87odrdzci9.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87ac2w45e0.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <85y7qfvigo.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85psbrvgrt.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163415373 29621 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 10:56:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 11:56:08 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjZTm-0002rO-Fy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:55:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjZTl-0005in-VB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjZTV-0005iF-AC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:55:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GjZTS-0005hc-BO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:55:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GjZTS-0005hZ-8g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:55:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [212.95.126.10] (helo=kolab.intevation.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GjZTS-00057W-3h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:55:34 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kolab.intevation.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD954108EE5 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:55:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by kolab.intevation.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE13108F04 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:55:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from thoe.hq.intevation.de (thoe.hq.intevation.de [192.168.11.35]) by kolab.intevation.de (Postfix) with SMTP id 49B4C108EE5 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:55:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (nullmailer pid 25776 invoked by uid 10004); Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:55:23 -0000 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at intevation.de X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62191 Archived-At: * dhruva [20061113 10:54]: > - I was then inclined in using bazaar which is implemented in PYTHON. > Since PYTHON is quite well ported, I assumed the clients would run > seamlessly on VMS. The snag was that the current bazaar-ng requires > PYTHON 2.5+ (only 2.4 is ported on VMS) > - CVS was was the only option left. The client was available on ALPHA > VMS, with miminal changes to the build scripts, I was able to get it > on IA64 (Itanium) VMS. > > Ever since, we have being using CVS. I am waiting for getting PYTHON > 2.5 on VMS to be able to start using bazaar-ng. IMO, the idea of > client being developed in a language that is interpreted or works on a > virtual machine is ideal. The SCM developers need not worry on > portability and can concentrate on adding the SCM features! Mercurial runs fine on Python 2.3. It uses very few C extensions, but they have been tested on many architectures and platforms. Thomas -- Email: thomas@intevation.de http://intevation.de/~thomas/