On May 6, 2:44 pm, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Android platform already has fairly strong community support, much
> stronger than some other OSS projects I've had experience with.
>
> There is a level of fanatisism amongst VCS supporters, as with a lot of
> competing technologies. However this is not the reason why Git is the chosen
> VCS for Android.
>
> Git provides a more flexible workflow pattern so different businesses can
> work together more efficiently, it also inverts ownership of the sourcecode
> - it it possible to clone the entire project history and work offline/away
> from Google, working to your own push schedule. From a business point of
> view, Git is a key technology for avoiding developers having to sync with
> Google's workflow. There are other benefits, but I leave that to you as
> homework.
Subversion mostly provide the same things.
> I think many would agree with you on the windows build support benefits, but
> you haven't yet explained why you yourself can't make this happen for us.
> Are you too busy? Because I'm sure the core Android devs are... personally I
> think Windows is the wrong platform for anything but Windows application
> development, but I'm just one man.
I'd like to do that but I'm afraid I do not have so much free time for
that. Or you can sponsor me?!
ARM - choose Windows OS as major development environment;
Blackberry/RIM - choose Windows OS as major development environment;
Nokia/Symbian - choose Windows OS as major development environment;
Palm - choose Windows OS as major development environment;
All those commercially successful vendors choose Windows OS as a
development environment and I can not blame them, because they made
right commercial choice. (exception is Palm they are now doing really
bad financially).
> If you decide to take the project on, be sure to keep people posted on the
> dev list, I'm sure your efforts won't be wasted.
>
> On May 6, 2009 9:58 AM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> All answers I got was about technology, but not about business and
> future. Without proper community support vendors will not invest into
> Android development.
>
> 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. SVN usage is more correct from
> market/business side of platform moving forward.
>
> Also for business will be right to attach Windows developers, because
> there quantity and experience are very significant. 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. 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.
>
> On May 6, 9:36 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm
> very familiar with git-sv...
>
> > On May 5, 2009 4:59 PM, "AlexK" <[email protected]> wrote: > >
>
> subversion migration is an ...
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