Well, we don't need massive scalability. Freenet isn't THAT big. On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:36:28AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > On Thursday 15 September 2005 07:21, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:44:44PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 17:08, Matthew Toseland wrote: > > > > > > > I'd like to talk to them. I am told that there is much going on on the > > > > Frost boards, and we have seen some new apps e.g. pm4pigs, but people > > > > seem to avoid talking directly to us for some reason.. probably this > > > > would be helped by working freemail integrated into the lists, some sort > > > > of CVS replacement that works over freenet, etc. > > > > > > Take a look at git. Its file store is immutable and its all open source. > > > IMHO > > > cvs is g*****e. Something like git should be easily adaptable to freenet > > > and > > > makes a better source control system to boot. > > > > Preferable to arch? We would obviously want something where everyone has > > a full copy of the repository, if possible... > > When the Linux kernel switched to git lots of performance testing was done. > With > large projects the existing systems were just too slow. Some have improved > since but > git has just got faster... > > The major problem with git from a freenet pov is that it is unix only so far. > There is > Mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi) which was started > at > the same time as git with the same goals. There is a windows version and it > is being > used by the Xen project. From what I understand its storage model is not > quite as > freenet friendly as (unpacked) git. Either of these managers would make > distributed > development easier. > > Ed
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