Hi Geoffrey, > What I mean by this, specifically, is that I will open a PLplot git > repo with > one of the open-source git hosting services. I propose not to use > SF for > this, because from reading the SF docs, I can't really tell that > they provide > the facilities both for tracking svn with git, and then subsequently > replacing svn with git (which is my ultimate goal). So, I'm > thinking its > best to keep the SF git option unactivated for now, and instead do > the PLplot > git stuff through one of the other git hosting services.
I can also provide a git repo, since I have a dreamhost account with plenty of space and transfer rate. The plplot wiki is already running there and I don't mind if the git repo is also there. Git on dreamhost should be possible: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Git . AFAIU git it would also be no problem, if I cancel the account, since it's decentralized anyways and then you just would open another git repo somewhere else. At least we would have more control over the git repo this way. The servers are also located in the US. > > No matter, frankly. The point is, I want to make it as easy as > possible for > people who would like to be using git for plplot work, to do so. > So, I'll > plan to post (ultimately in the SF svn repo), some docs on how to do > with > git-svn, the kinds of things I'm doing. And it seems others are > possibly > farther along with git-svn than I am, so perhaps I will learn more > than I > offer here, but anyway, let's get that ball rolling. It would be also cool if you document that on the wiki as well - http://www.miscdebris.net/plplot_wiki . So potential users know about the git repo before they download anything. > > > Comments welcome. As Andrew and Alan I'm also not to enthusiastic about that, since svn suits my needs, but I commit that I'm no expert on cvs/svn/git at all. But I could live with a move to git if it turns out, that it has advantages (or at least no disadvantages) and if enough core developers are in favour of such a move. But as already pointed out Windows support is a big issue for me. I would like to stick to Linux or Mac OS X for developing, but this is not the case and apart from that I also think that it is important to not turn the back on 90% of all developers/users. So Windows support is IMHO essential for projects like plplot if we like it or not. Regards, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office), +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
