On 04/14/2010 06:42 PM, Jose Quesada wrote:
Great post Abdel.
The idea of sharing repos as a portable document format is great. The
only issue I have with git is that it depends on a mixture of C, shell
and perl scripts that make it hardly portable. But I could be wrong.
For what we need, only the compiled c program is required. But in any
case msysgit runs pretty fine under Windows and git has even been ported
to MSVC nowadays.
Assuming a working python on the system is not that bad (OSX, *BSDs
and linuxes most have them). And python is already a requirement for
LyX right? So my vote goes to mercurial.
We are not at the voting step just now, this is all vaporware we are
talking about ;-)
AFAIK mercurial also rely on some compiled c-code but I can be wrong.
In any case, the goal would be to rely on an installed git or mercurial,
not to redistribute them I guess. Under Windows, distributing git or
mercurial would just be a packaging issue, nothing else.
Abdel.
