From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:05:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> References: <20071231130712.GB8641@thyrsus.com> <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199210765 8911 80.91.229.12 (1 Jan 2008 18:06:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 18:06:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, esr@snark.thyrsus.com, eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: acm@muc.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 01 19:06:23 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 1J9lVI-0007AV-Pb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:06:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J9lUw-0003Xm-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:05:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J9lUs-0003Ue-IG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J9lUp-0003PM-7m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J9lUo-0003P8-MA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:05:46 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.186]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J9lUk-0008Nj-Oj; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 13:05:43 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (ip-62-143-170-209.1211H-CUD12K-04.ish.de [62.143.170.209]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrelayeu8) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0ML31I-1J9lUM3RuG-0003BU; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:05:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2.50 on Emacs 22.0.97.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18bOynEDjoBY218NfUvjjS5elBdQnRfkLwea/a YlHSnKUkS4iR/FbjO3SK58pn9LYhE2t80bgApl7WZU2Im3XiWK qxOTggBxqW1gdnYqaPxlA== X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:85811 Archived-At: > [...] I suggest the following two constraints for the new tools, > which might not apply to Battle for Wesnoth: > > o - They must support "batch mode" working, for RMS and others who > concentrate fiercely on a single activity at a time. git has such a batch mode, while CVS has none. So for Richard, git would be a much better choice than CVS since he could commit very small units while being off-line. Werner