felix winkelmann wrote:
On 1/5/07, Brandon J. Van Every <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I haven't considered whether building from a Subversion repository
introduces a difficulty. I do know you won't be able to build a
Changelog,
as you need a Darcs repository for that. To be honest I don't
understand
why we support a Subversion repository for Chicken proper. Awhile back,
Felix was saying that he and myself were the only 2 people using Darcs.
Well, if everyone else is using Subversion, that would have a lot to
do with
it.
The subversion repo is just for people who don't have darcs. It's just
for
convenience to get the latest development chicken. It is irregularly
updated from the darcs repo, which is and remains the main development
repository.
If I were making the decisions on such things, I would drop Subversion
support and force people to use / learn Darcs. I'd provide a HOWTO, of
course. The point is, Chicken needs more developers who are ready and
capable of interacting with the core development tools. When they are
allowed to use source control that isn't actually used for development,
they are allowed to have a work + psychological barrier that keeps them
from taking "the next step" towards contributing. I know I was in an
"uuuuh, WTF is Darcs?" stage for a time, before I became motivated
enough to start contributing. I don't think Chicken is large enough or
convenient enough to be worrying about "the masses of programmers who
casually try things out." Rather, Chicken needs to attract more core
developers. Also, lack of Subversion isn't a dealbreaker for people
casually investigating Chicken. We do provide source tarballs that
actually build.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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