On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le Mar 23 janvier 2007 15:00, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
> So, all in all, you should better make all these VCS stuff entirely
> transparent (Implement applications around it), or you'd better off
> using something standardized, ... which ATM, would reduce the choice to
> svn or CVS.
A lot of big projects (Linux, Xorg, Java VM, etc)
... all comparatively small in
comparison to Fedora ...
A Fedora package VCS is comparatively simple, but it's BIG, very BIG.
are moving either to git
or hg today. hg/git are not "exotic", bazar/svn increasingly are (git/hg
are really the same choice as they're very similar fonctionnality-wise)
You have the following history
A. CVS sucks, but everybody but Linus uses it
Exactly, ... because it doesn't
suck as much as some people want to make
believe and because it's still very usable.
E. Public use of git and hg by big projects inspire confidence.
If things work out ... if not ... it pisses people off from FEDORA.
SVN was last year's good choice.
Well, I beg to differ ...
... last decade's trap, many people fell into.
CVS was last decade bad default.
... known deficiencies/issues
+ experience + wide userbase
== confidence and usability ;)
Ralf