Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:07:17 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Janne Snabb wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. > > > AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical > > > widely-used in

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
Smells like Debian. Smells like Slashdot. I give up. On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick > wrote: > >> Given the amount of GPL'd software in the base system, why are we >> already fighting over licensing?  What is it with the

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
22.09.2010, 14:11, "Adam Vande More" : > BSD license > has a particular advantage in embedded/black box systems, so not polluting > base with more viral licensing is pretty important to project as whole I > think. Do embedded systems really need to use ports tree? I guess no, or only during init

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Given the amount of GPL'd software in the base system, why are we > already fighting over licensing? What is it with the open-source world > and obsessing with licensing? It should be up for discussion after > alternatives have been deter

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:50:37AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM, wrote: > > > As I understand it, what is being suggested is the adoption of a > > new code base for a significant piece of infrastructure. I think > > the proposal is at less risk of being summari

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> This dvcs is BSD licensed: IMHO, if it's worth to change VCS, it would be much wiser to use well-known one -- Regards, Konstantin ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:27 AM, wrote: > As I understand it, what is being suggested is the adoption of a > new code base for a significant piece of infrastructure. I think > the proposal is at less risk of being summarily rejected if it can > viably be based on BSD-licensed code rather than on

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-22 Thread perryh
jhell wrote: > Feel free to correct me if I am wrong but it is not going to > matter much to what extent a license has to do with this besides > ease of mind maybe. We would not be using the source for the VCS > in a repo that holds the source that is being distributed and > none of the containe

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread jhell
On 09/20/2010 22:07, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Janne Snabb wrote: > >> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >>> One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. >>> AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical >>> widely-used infrastructure if a viab

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread perryh
Janne Snabb wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. > > AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical > > widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative > > exists. > > The project curr

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread Janne Snabb
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. > AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical > widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative > exists. The project currently uses Perforce for many sub-

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread Romain Tartière
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:20:39AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > SVN [...] is GPL; nope, it's under Apache License 2.0, see: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/LICENSE -- Romain Tartière http://romain.blogreen.org/ pgp: 8234 9A78 E7C0 B807 0B59 80FF BA4D 1D95 5112 3

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread perryh
Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Why not Git? One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative exists. Granted SVN, currently used to manage src, is GPL; but its criti

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 20/09/2010 03:01, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > Is this just my impression or are we trying to build a bikeshed here? I think we all agree, that the stage is not set for a VCS change. Regards -- A: Because it fouls the order in

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread jhell
On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:17, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: In Message-Id: <174981284967...@web24.yandex.ru> 1). http://bit.ly/d5UrtN 2). http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/paper.pdf 3). http://bit.ly/97Y8Xi 4). Because CVS just does not do any of this. Make your final comparison here: http://bit.ly/

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-20 Thread Konstantin Tokarev
> > 1). http://bit.ly/d5UrtN > > 2). http://www.keltia.net/BSDCan/paper.pdf > > 3). http://bit.ly/97Y8Xi > > 4). Because CVS just does not do any of this. > > Make your final comparison here: > http://bit.ly/cyQBn8 > > For the sake of argument can you think of any reason to not switch ? Why not

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-19 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:38:28 -0400 > jhell wrote: > >> On 09/18/2010 07:17, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: >> > >> > I'm still to see a concise, clear, precise, listing of advantages >> > that switching from CVS would bring us, >> > that would ove

Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-19 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 02:38:28 -0400 jhell wrote: > On 09/18/2010 07:17, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > > > I'm still to see a concise, clear, precise, listing of advantages > > that switching from CVS would bring us, > > that would overcome the effort needed to do it (committers, users, > > infrastru

Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update )

2010-09-18 Thread jhell
On 09/18/2010 07:17, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > > I'm still to see a concise, clear, precise, listing of advantages that > switching from CVS would bring us, that would overcome the effort > needed to do it (committers, users, infrastructure, tools). > 1). http://bit.ly/d5UrtN 2). http://www.kel