From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 13:02:12 +0900 Message-ID: <87sit1iwqj.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <1388785952.11337.16.camel@Iris> <874n5k12ft.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388841220.11337.21.camel@Iris> <87bnzrzuzp.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <1388846441.11337.25.camel@Iris> <8738l2k4hh.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <1388927967.11337.32.camel@Iris> <87zjnaiaau.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87a9fa2etj.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388980948 12357 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 04:02:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 04:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Dov Feldstern Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 05:02:34 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W01Oc-0000wk-2G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 05:02:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60537 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W01Ob-0003vT-Ls for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W01OS-0003uS-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W01OI-0006dn-BK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:02:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:52836) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W01OI-0006cM-1c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 23:02:14 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C6A970863; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:02:13 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 094521A2E7D; Mon, 6 Jan 2014 13:02:12 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" 2a0f42961ed4 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:167437 Archived-At: Dov Feldstern writes: > By "compelled" I mean "compelled by circumstances", I'm not hinting at > coercion of any sort... and I agree that network effects are real, and > a valid consideration (though I'd consider them to be second-order). They are, indeed, typically characterized by a second-order polynomial with a positive coefficient on the quadratic term. In other words, we have O(N^2) *benefits*. :-)