From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:03:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071011150322.GA18477@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvhckxd86h.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> Let's see what we currently support:
>
> (RCS CVS SVN SCCS Bzr Git Hg Mtn Arch MCVS)
>
> [with DaRCS being hopefully added soon]
I see a rudimentary Monotone back end in CVS, too. Are you planning to
finish that?
> Of those, when starting a new project, I wouldn't want to recommend any one
> in particular: they all have their strength and weaknesses. I don't think
> it's our role to pimp one over another. And given the fact that Emacs
> provides no particular support to start a project under either of those VCS
> anyway, I think we should simply punt on this issue.
RMS said to drop it, so I had already removed the recommendations from
CVS head.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-11 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-10-10 21:44 ` Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65) Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-10 22:00 ` Manoj Srivastava
2007-10-10 22:07 ` Jason Rumney
2007-10-10 22:55 ` Eric S. Raymond
2007-10-12 18:09 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-10-11 14:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-11 15:03 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-10-11 15:05 ` David Kastrup
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