From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dhruva Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general,gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs repository benchmark: bzr and git Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:43:25 +0530 Message-ID: References: <200803290100.m2T10Mgm007655@localhost.localdomain> <85iqz5rgvw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206785622 12187 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2008 10:13:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:13:42 +0000 (UTC) To: "David Kastrup" , "Andreas Schwab" , "Xavier Maillard" , tlikonen@iki.fi, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, bazaar@lists.canonical.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Sat Mar 29 11:14:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from chlorine.canonical.com ([91.189.94.204]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JfY4g-0000Ej-7f for gcvbg-bazaar-ng@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:14:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=chlorine.canonical.com) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfY41-00015f-W9; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:13:30 +0000 Original-Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.142.188]) by chlorine.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JfY3z-00015W-P0 for bazaar@lists.canonical.com; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:13:28 +0000 Original-Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j2so244109tid.4 for ; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.110.20.17 with SMTP id 17mr2540601tit.47.1206785605349; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.110.3.13 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:13:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <85iqz5rgvw.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: bazaar@lists.canonical.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list List-Id: bazaar discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Errors-To: bazaar-bounces@lists.canonical.com Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.version-control.bazaar-ng.general:39502 gmane.emacs.devel:93772 Archived-At: I personally find it odd to compare between a GNU product and another GPL software. IMHO, we should be treating all GPLed softwares equally. Hence, comparison between git and bzr can be termed as apple to apple comparision. -dhruva On 3/29/08, David Kastrup wrote: > Andreas Schwab writes: > > > Xavier Maillard writes: > > > >> I personally do not see a single mail which can tilt the scale > >> in favor of bzr except it is part of GNU project. > >> > >> The "except it is part of GNU project" is the _main_ reason. > > > > When an arbitrary political decision wipes away all technical arguments > > it is not helping free software in any way. > > Uh, an arbitrary political decision wiping away all technical arguments > is what started free software in the first place. > > The question is not whether the decision is political or technical. The > free software movement is, after all, a political one. The question is > whether it is the right political decision. I am not convinced of that. > > But your argument is putting the cart before the horse. We should let > ourselves be directed by our goals, not by letting gravity take its > course at the place where we already are. > > -- > David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum > > >