From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:03:23 -0400 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071011150322.GA18477@thyrsus.com> References: <20071010211743.5104873931@grelber.thyrsus.com> <20071010214419.GA1297@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1192114983 15036 80.91.229.12 (11 Oct 2007 15:03:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 11 17:03:01 2007 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 1IfzYu-0004yp-0v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:02:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfzYo-0003GX-6V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfzYk-0003DX-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IfzYj-0003BO-Ad for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:02:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IfzYi-0003Ae-Us for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5] helo=snark) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IfzYi-0000XP-FY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:02:44 -0400 Original-Received: by snark (Postfix, from userid 23) id 937C238032; Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:03:23 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:80624 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier : > 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. -- Eric S. Raymond