From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:03:50 +0900 Message-ID: <87y7al11a1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <4pd9g15e.fsf@blue.sea.net> <874pd92ias.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200809057 12373 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2008 06:04:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:04:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 20 07:04:35 2008 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 1JGTII-0004jI-T5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:04:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGTHt-00041k-Nt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:04:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGTHm-0003yz-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:04:03 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGTHk-0003xX-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:04:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGTHk-0003xK-Kn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:04:00 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp02.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.72]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGTHg-0003lm-SO; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:03:57 -0500 Original-Received: from 203-216-99-223.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.99.223] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp02.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1JGTHd-0000In-Gf; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:03:53 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7002A2F4D; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:03:51 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:36:41 +0100") Original-Lines: 30 X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:87098 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > I doubt Cygwin can be "a fine solution" for anything, but that's just me. There seem to be a fair number of windows users who have some sort of gripe with cygwin, but I've never quite understood what it is... Whenever I try cygwin, things just work, and installing it seems completely painless. > However, as someone already said, there's MSYS/MinGW port of git in > the works. It lacks some things (Subversion importing, daemon, most > things related to e-mail...), but it is quite useable. Yes, obviously in the long run, the msys git port will probably be preferable to the majority of developers. What you say above seems to indicate it's further along than I realized. > That's not to say that git it is preferable over mercurial, however. > Let's first read Eric's article. When Eric finishes his "article", it will be something to consider, but please don't give the impression that it will be some kind of definitive statement on the issue. Eric, besides having rather obvious lack of experience with many of these systems, has already shown clear biases. It's very hard for even somebody trying hard to be objective to do a good job of such a comparison. -Miles -- I'd rather be consing.