From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:38:54 -0500 Message-ID: <87fxwraon5.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <20071230122217.3CA84830B9A@snark.thyrsus.com> <4pd9g15e.fsf@blue.sea.net> <874pd92ias.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87y7al11a1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200883154 27310 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2008 02:39:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 02:39:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 03:39:32 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 1JGmZP-0005u7-8U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:39:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGmYz-0007cg-Pf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGmYv-0007c2-Oj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JGmYu-0007au-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JGmYu-0007ap-Lc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.193.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JGmYq-0003Tw-LE; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:38:57 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40656 ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JGmYp-0006oX-3N; Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:38:55 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon\, 21 Jan 2008 11\:11\:05 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:87163 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > "Juanma Barranquero" writes: >>> It's very hard for even somebody trying hard to be objective to do a >>> good job of such a comparison. >> >> I don't think we need a good general comparison; more like a good >> comparison from people who has a working knowledge of the dVCS tools >> and, most important, knows about Emacs development. > > Many of the regular developers on this list appear to have a great deal > more experience with both (dVCS tools and Emacs development) than Eric > does... But Eric has stepped forward to actually do the comparison work here. (He also has enough experience in both fields for this purpose, even if there are people here who have more with one field, the other, or both.) I'm looking forward to his comparison and recommendations. I'd also look forward to yours, of course. -Karl