>> - Availability: Neither Suse Linux or any BSD variants (FreeBSD, >> OpenBSD, NetBSD) provide Mercurial packages as part of their >> distributions. Choosing a niece product may not be wise. git, >> Subversion and bitkeeper are not only more popular - they are also >> much more widespread and better tested than Mercurial thanks to the >> far larger community. > >Isn't FreeBSD itself migrating to Mercurial ? >http://www.keltia.net/EuroBSDCon/slides.pdf
Selecting a niche product may also tell you how rigorous the selection process was; the "well known, main stream contenders" just failed to deliver the goods. I'd rather use a niche product which works than a main stream product which doesn't. (Were you using the "Microsoft" argument?) Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org