I had tried to stay out of this discussion. Now that the flame level seems to have dropped, I will join in for one mail.
Helge Hess wrote: > On 19. Okt 2005, at 02:36 Uhr, Andrew Ruder wrote: >> Should the sourceware.org folks respond favorably to our hosting of >> gnustep subversion there, will it be pursued? > > I suppose GNUstep should stick with GNU focused services and definitely > not move to a specific vendor (RedHat in this case). Reasons got stated > by Adam and I tend to agree. > I, like almost everybody taking part in this discussion, would like to move on to a more powerful version control system. But I would prefer to keep GNUstep on savannah. Perhaps we could start lobbying them to get up to speed with a new version control system. Here I am not fixed on subversion. What ever other system they decide on would suite me. > Given the feedback of Richard, Wim, Rogelio the proposal seems to be > dropped. The "6 months" timeout mentioned by some seems to be a rather > ridiculous "excuse" to me since in this timeframe the systems > _definitely_ won't change in any noticable way. > Apparently the core developers are fine with CVS - which is rather > surprising to me, but needs to be accepted. > The available systems may not change to much in that time frame, but the position of savannah towards them may well change. That's why I support this idea. > The primary thing I would have hoped for are branches which might not > directly reflect the "regligious GNUstep path", eg branches which > support FHS. IMHO this would have been much easier with Svn and > definitely won't happen as CVS branches. > Here I can sense some difference. I also like branching, the hard part is to merge the branches later on again. It is horrible how hard it is in CVS to move files. But imagine the task of merging back a branch of GNUstep, where the whole structure of the souce code has changed. I really prefer small decidated patches. Here I see a big challange for GNUstep coming up, after we made the switch to a better version control system. It will force us to introduce even stricter rules or we will end up with unmergable branches, where everybody has romm to play, but not to share. This is not just a theoretical experiment. I am in the process of trying to merge back code from the myStep project, which did branch off from GNUstep more than five years ago. As soon as the file hierarchy structure changes as well merging really gets hard. BTW for this merge I will also need to reconsider the GNUstep FHS politics, but that's a separate issue. Cheers Fred _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
