On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:06:00PM -0700, Andy Tai wrote: > (sorry about the previous mail. Pressed the wrong > key) > > To put it simply, all these five or so forks were > started from a single person's work.
Excluding Bazaar-NG, true. > And don't forget GNU Guile, the scheme implementation. > Whether it is doing OK or not, it was an important > piece of free software historically, even though not > much related to revision control. And the regex implementation in the toolchain as well, I believe. > All started from Tom Lord. Good or bad, Tom Lord can > be a great contributor to Free Software and the > software industry as a whole. Not many people have > the privileges of being the sources of five forks. > Even if some day Martin Pool takes over to become the > leader of the revision control field, he cannot deny > the contributions of Tom Lord. If revision control were the sort of thing mentioned in history books, he'd certainly be listed. > --- James Blackwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > That's what ArX, the gnuarch 1.2.xrc series, Bazaar > > 1.x, Bazaar-NG and > > probably mercurial were/are all about, good buddy. > > > > > > > Andy Tai, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Free Software: the software by the people, of the people and for the people! > Develop! Share! Enhance! Enjoy! > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnu-arch-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users > > GNU arch home page: > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/ _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
