From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Nicolaescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: source repository Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:54:06 -0700 Message-ID: <200707040954.l649s61i029010@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> References: <200707031442.28402.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <468A3997.2040500@f2s.com> <200707031514.17225.pogonyshev@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183543098 4549 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2007 09:58:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:58:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Paul Pogonyshev To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 11:58:17 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I61cm-0006Tm-BM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:58:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I61cl-0005yr-Lw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:58:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I61Zh-0005JH-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:55:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I61Zf-0005Iz-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I61Zf-0005Iu-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:55:03 -0400 Original-Received: from oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu ([128.195.1.41]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I61Zb-0004cR-H9; Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:54:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mothra.ics.uci.edu (mothra.ics.uci.edu [128.195.6.93]) by oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l649s61i029010; Wed, 4 Jul 2007 02:54:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue\, 03 Jul 2007 22\:43\:18 +0300") Original-Lines: 25 X-ICS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ICS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-1.44, required 5, autolearn=disabled, ALL_TRUSTED -1.44) X-ICS-MailScanner-From: dann@mothra.ics.uci.edu X-detected-kernel: Solaris 9 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:74289 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: Paul Pogonyshev > > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:14:16 +0300 > > Cc: Jason Rumney > > > > > You understood incorrectly. Some developers use arch, but the definitive > > > repository for Emacs is CVS. Since Miles is away at the moment, the arch > > > synching is not happening. I'm not sure why savannah lists arch above > > > cvs (probably it is alphabetical order), but it is misleading - there > > > should be some indication there that the main repository is CVS. > > > > Oh. A pity Emacs still uses so old system. > > Why should we care how old it is, if it suits our needs? We are not > exactly spoiled by abundance of free resources to invest effort in > jobs that are ``nice to have''. Just think how many man-hours will be > wasted if every Emacs developer and contributor will have to install, > learn, and set up an unfamiliar configuration management package. Well, one thing that is missing in emacs right now for most version control is something similar to PCL-CVS. That would make life much easier for emacs developers not really familiar with a particular version control system. And on top of that, it would be extremely useful for all emacs users.