From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Greg Troxel Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Switching to Git? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87odh1ribo.fsf@chbouib.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187705398 22294 80.91.229.12 (21 Aug 2007 14:09:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:09:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 21 16:09:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1INUQc-0001q6-TF for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:09:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INUQc-0004tI-9N for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INUQZ-0004t3-JV for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1INUQY-0004sq-SK for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1INUQY-0004sn-Pq for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:50 -0400 Original-Received: from fnord.ir.bbn.com ([192.1.100.210]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1INUQW-0006NQ-K7; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:48 -0400 Original-Received: by fnord.ir.bbn.com (Postfix, from userid 10853) id 579F852ED; Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:09:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Hashcash: 1:20:070821:guile-devel@gnu.org::wseV293sag0NqlDB:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Tgt X-Hashcash: 1:20:070821:ludo@gnu.org::wseV293sag0NqlDB:000001b15 In-Reply-To: <87odh1ribo.fsf@chbouib.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8s=22's?= message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:45:31 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) X-Detected-Kernel: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:6722 Archived-At: [I've been using CVS since 1994 and have seen more VC systems come and go than I can remember. So I'm predisposed to be cranky about switching.] My quick reaction is that this would be be good overall. While the benefits are probably significant, switching makes it harder for people to follow along. I say this because of my experience with guile-gnome - they have changed revision control systems several times and I have had trouble with each one. I no longer track guile-gnome HEAD - just update pkgsrc to releases and then complain when the latest release doesn't work with the latest release of some dependency. The more serious problem with guile is a lack of focus on timely, stable releases usable by people who want to integrate it. Plus backwards compatibility so that people that do integrated it have very little grief, and the current slib mess. I wonder if the 'decentralized development' notion is really consistent with the "papers, please" demand of FSF. Have "assigned" projects used distributed CM systems? How has that been handled? But if the people that have assigned changes and actually hack on guile (which isn't me) want to use git, and if it will help the cause of better releases that can be used in confidence, then that seems fine. _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel