From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: deleting rcs keywords from emacs sources Date: 23 Mar 2004 10:14:57 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20040323142253.7985.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040323143520.GA2538@fencepost> <20040323155004.7988.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080056879 26150 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 15:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 16:47:48 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5o84-0005Kl-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:47:48 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5o83-0003Nl-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:47:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5o1H-0003ck-E6 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:40:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5o0s-0003cI-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:40:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5o0M-0003X3-KB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:40:21 -0500 Original-Received: from [206.47.199.166] (helo=simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5nu3-0002Hg-N8; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:33:19 -0500 Original-Received: from empanada.local ([67.68.216.177]) by simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20040323151457.OAOE27916.simmts8-srv.bellnexxia.net@empanada.local>; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:14:57 -0500 Original-Received: by empanada.local (Postfix, from userid 502) id D10511405AB; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:14:57 -0500 (EST) Original-To: Juanma Barranquero In-Reply-To: <20040323155004.7988.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> Original-Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20796 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20796 Can we either stick to the subject (i.e. removing $Id$) or at least change the subject line, please? Stefan >>>>> "Juanma" == Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:35:20 -0500 > Miles Bader wrote: >> I think the main point is that `centralized' is the easy case, and arch can >> do that too. If people want centralized, that's no problem -- but the >> additional freedom of painless distributed development is a _significant_ >> advantage to arch. > Yeah, I understand that. My point, OTOH, is that Emacs developers > probably don't want or need an additional freedom they're not going to > use, if the cost is a less stable, less well maintained or more complex > tool. > Of course, I'm not trying to speak on behalf of the Emacs developers > here, it's just a feeling. But, as the issue of enhancement value vs. > ease of maintaining is weighted once and again with respect to new > features and functionality, the same parameters can be applied to the > choosing of a VC tool. I'm *sure* there are lots of projects for which > arch is the right (or best) tool, much better than Subversion. I simply > don't see why should it be the case for Emacs. >> [Perhaps this is not something that's entirely obvious if you've not used it >> before, but it's wonderfully liberating.] > I can well imagine it, and I'm looking forward to giving a fair try to arch, > when it is well supported on Windows and for the right projects. > Juanma