> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht----- > Von: "Matthew Toseland" <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> > Gesendet: 31.03.09 21:19:29 > An: devl at freenetproject.org > Betreff: [freenet-dev] Git vs hg: we must decide now!
> Which DSCM should we switch to? Last time we discussed this, we decided on > mercurial (hg). We need a decision in the near future - it has dragged out > for 6 months due to technical and communication problems, but nextgens is > able and willing to implement a change in the near future. Ian has suggested > that we need to re-evaluate the decision. So, we will take a vote of > developers active in the last 6 months - and if nobody votes, I'll choose. > > The reasons we chose hg previously: > - It has a better HTTP transport. > - It has better Java support : in particular, netbeans has integrated and > well > supported hg support. > - It has better Windows support : mainstream hg runs on Windows, while there > are Windows Git clients. > > Both hg and git have been demonstrated to work over Freenet. Git seems to > need > a bit more help than hg does. > > At least four developers and at least one third party have been maintaining > their own svn-to-git repositories based on remotely importing the official > tree, this is one of many reasons to use a DSCM: > - Better offline commit support. > - Better redundancy and security in general. > - Better integration with anonymous development (subject to the caveat that > we > must be sure something is the contributor's own work). > > In order to get a clear-cut decision, I have set an arbitrary deadline of the > end of Tuesday the 7th of April. This will only be extended in *exceptional* > circumstances. > > So if you have an opinion, please reply to this thread. If you qualify as a > developer active in the last 6 months, then please indicate your vote - you > can change it right up to the deadline. > the pyFreenetHg writer votes for... hg (surprisingly?;). MfG saces > <hr> > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > ____________________________________________________________________ Psssst! Schon vom neuen WEB.DE MultiMessenger geh?rt? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3123
