From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:44:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071010214419.GA1297@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071010211743.5104873931@grelber.thyrsus.com>
From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Subject: Re: Policy issue in the VC manual -- recommending CVS?!?
> To: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Message-ID: <470D40AA.6020400@gnu.org>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > Recommending GNU arch is dubious considering Arch's poorly-maintained
> > and poorly-documented state. If I'm not mistaken, Arch has been
> > effectively moribund since about 2003.
> >
>
> I think you're mistaken. Savannah lists the last release as July last year.
So it's only been over a year since the last point release. I'm not
hugely reassured.
> > Recommending CVS is well beyond dubious into outright ridiculous.
>
> Like it or not, CVS is stable, and widely used. Its "problems" are
> widely exaggerated by adherents to the latest wave of version control
> religions.
Er. I've been using VCSes since the days when SCCS was the only one
in existence. The fact that I still cheerfully use RCS, the second
one ever built, makes me pretty bulletproof against charges of
version-control faddism. But file-oriented VCSes just plain suck
for distributed projects, and there's no way to make them not suck.
> > No recommendations at all would be better than these. Who decides
> > what the manual recommends? If it's "the last person to care", I'm
> > going to nuke these in a nanosecond.
> Arch is part of GNU
Please tell me you're not implying that we should recommend an inferior
GPLed tool over a superior one just because the inferior is distributed
from an FSF server. That would be taking political jaundice to an
absurd extreme.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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2007-10-10 21:44 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2007-10-10 22:00 ` Manual policy (Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 44, Issue 65) 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
2007-10-11 15:05 ` David Kastrup
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