2018-03-27 20:52:48 Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca>: > That's unfair. The fact that you're unfamiliar with it doesn't mean it's a > pain. > Perhaps it's a pain for you now, but imagine the pains of a Mercurial user > wrangling some of the crazy problems which > occur frequently with Git (much worse). > > I'm not going to once again go over the technical reasons for this, but > Mercurial is in many ways a success over Git, > which is why some of the larger integrations have chosen it over Git (e.g. > look at what Facebook has done, and I'm > aware of other such large integrations and have discussed the details with > some of the developers carrying them out at > a conference, they're convincing technical reasons). Don't let your OSS > perspective skew your vision. Github might be > more popular, but so was VHS.
I am not trying to start a flame war, but I would like to point out that choosing a popular tool/platform attracts more developers. A friend of mine lives in Canada and often jokes about the mandatory French usage in Canada when chatting with me. Say, if the lead developer of an OSS is from Québec and believes that French is better than English when coding, writing commit messages and discussing in mailing list -- this project may not get as much contributors as another project which chooses English as the main language. I am not judging which language (English vs. French) is better, nor am I going to say Git is better than Mercurial. I just would like to point out: **if** we move the project to a popular tool/platform, the project may attract more contributors. Even if the tool/platform may be obsolete like VHS in the future, it is popular right now, isn't it? Just my humble 0.02 Canadian Dollars. -- Zhuoyun Wei -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beancount+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to beancount@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/20180328023034.GA4815%40tarball.wzyboy.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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