On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 10:57 AM, AlexK <[email protected]> wrote:
> > All answers I got was about technology, but not about business and > future. You asked technology questions, and received technology answers. Surprising?. > Without proper community support vendors will not invest into > Android development. > May or may not be true, but pretty irrelevant to the questions you raised. > GIT vs SVN - is it a philosophy war?! As I said I do not see any good > point that stops from using SVN instead of GIT... distributed nature > cost very low, due to low usage of it. Distributed version control is much better suited for a project which has the magnitude of Android, where a lot of different partners want to have their own repositories with a crazy number of branches and custom modifications. If you think that a single SVN server can handle that, you're mistaken. If you think that this can be managed by having several SVN repositories (e.g. a public one and various 'internal' ones), you don't know the nightmare that properly synchronizing them can be at times (e.g. repeated merge conflicts) SVN usage is more correct from > market/business side of platform moving forward. > Citation needed :-) > > Also for business will be right to attach Windows developers, because > there quantity and experience are very significant. The *vast* majority of Windows developers code in .NET, Visual Basic or even Delphi. The Windows developers would can code Java can very easily switch to another OS. The Windows developers would can code decent C or C++ for embedded systems won't have a problem adapting to a new development environment, except for a very tiny minority. > How much MacOS and Linux take in OSs market?! less then 10%. So quantity of developer on those OSs in several time less then on Windows platform. Allocating at least several percents from Windows developer spool into Android spool will give greater boost to the Android as a platform. I bet that those Windows developers interested in contributing to Android won't have a problem running Linux in a virtual machine (or even a dedicated one). > Android can become a powerful platform only if many developers found that > porting > from one mobile platform to another not so hard task. > > Android requires a lot of internal fixes for proper support of many > technologies and Google can continue to keep all this together, but be > more opened to the community means better future for it. > Maybe, maybe not, but nothing says these must be "Windows-exclusive developers". > > On May 6, 9:36 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm very familiar with git-svn, I recommend you just learn the basics of > git > > instead of using it though. As for using git-svn to port the whole > codebase > > to svn, people usually use it to migrate from subversion to git, rather > than > > the other way around. Moving from a DVCS to a centralised one means a > loss > > of data and functionality. Subversion works for certain workflows, but > the > > Android platform is definitely not one of them. > > > > I'm not sure what exactly you are asking for with this Windows support > > suggestion. Is it not something you could work on and contribute to the > > project? That is the whole point of it being open source... modify the > build > > scripts, add some Windows tools and some documentation, and offer some > > patches back. > > > > On May 5, 2009 4:59 PM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > subversion migration is an easy task... take a look at "git-svn" > > > > Windows support not easy task as I understand, but it can be done. Can > > be included binaries instead of full source code compilation and used > > several other workarounds... I mention that experimental support of > > Windows will be sufficient. In any case compilation of sources are > > done on ARM processor that not native for windows and linux as well... > > issue with "case sensitive" file system that was mention above can be > > solved by small "move into folder" workarounds and changes in Make > > files. > > > > Please understand that you force Windows developer completely change > > environment. Not many developers will be ready to do that. > > > > On May 5, 6:00 pm, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Subversion? Windows? *shutter... > > > > > On Apr 30, 2009 1:58 PM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > I work with Androi...> more details about supported platforms can > be extracted fromhttp:// > > > > source.android.com/download > > > > > > Thanks > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
