From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What a modern collaboration toolkit looks like Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20080101171120.GC3830@muc.de> <20080101.190535.32709273.wl@gnu.org> <20080101182742.GE3830@muc.de> <20080101.192802.05328072.wl@gnu.org> <20080103010807.GB13318@kobe.laptop> <85wsqqnfce.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199616581 16420 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2008 10:49:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 10:49:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@snark.thyrsus.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, esr@thyrsus.com, keramida@ceid.upatras.gr, acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 06 11:50:01 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 1JBT4m-000401-QX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 11:50:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBT3j-0003t2-P4 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:48:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBT1n-0002w6-3W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JBT1i-0002u5-Tp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JBT1i-0002u0-L2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBT1h-00071H-T8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JBT1V-0001uj-Fc; Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:46:33 -0500 In-reply-to: <85bq80mgut.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:28:42 +0100) 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:86308 Archived-At: > I think that is a confusing way to compare them. > It focuses on similarities in implementation > rather than on similarities in use and role. But the use and role is completely the same as using a private CVS repository: all the diff and merge and branch and commit machinery works for single persons quite similar as with CVS. We are miscommunicating. I'm using the word role "role" to refer to relationship actions, such as "changing which version a user will get when he asks for the current development version".