[gentoo-dev] New category for version control
Hi, as dev-util is really crowded, maybe splitting off a category for source code management systems would be a good idea. They are more important today than some years ago. Are any of you against such a split? My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. Diffing tools or programs that only have some kind of binding to a scm should stay in dev-util. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode http://gentoo.faulhammer.org/> signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version > controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. Better call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme language and with software configuration management. Ulrich
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:32:47 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version > > controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. > > Better call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme > language and with software configuration management. And this is why the move wasn't done five years ago: by the time we'd worked out everything we'd need to do by hand because epkgmove was broken, the whole thing got bikeshedded to death. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 10:32:47AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version > > controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. > > Better call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme > language and with software configuration management. Nice idea, +1. I too prefer dev-vcs as the category name. -- Alex Alexander :: wired Gentoo Developer www.linuxized.com pgphqAM5dBleT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On 03/04/2010 11:35 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:32:47 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: >>> My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version >>> controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. >> >> Better call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme >> language and with software configuration management. > > And this is why the move wasn't done five years ago: by the time we'd > worked out everything we'd need to do by hand because epkgmove was > broken, the whole thing got bikeshedded to death. > I would let the people maintaining the packages in the new category decide what to call it. Regards, Petteri signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:28, Petteri Räty wrote: > I would let the people maintaining the packages in the new category > decide what to call it. As the primary maintainer for mercurial, hgsubversion and hg-git, I would prefer dev-vcs. I wonder, would a Python re-implementation of git libraries belong in dev-vcs or in dev-python (it's currently dev-python/dulwich)? Cheers, Dirkjan
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On 4 March 2010 10:58, Alex Alexander wrote: > Nice idea, +1. > > I too prefer dev-vcs as the category name. My thoughts exactly. Cheers, -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) __
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
Ulrich Mueller dixit (2010-03-04, 10:32): > > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: > > > My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version > > controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. > > Better call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme > language and with software configuration management. +1 for vcs for the above reason. Also, I think vcs is a more popular acronym than scm (don't quote me on this, though :)). -- [a]
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:35:28 + Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > And this is why the move wasn't done five years ago: by the time we'd > worked out everything we'd need to do by hand because epkgmove was > broken, the whole thing got bikeshedded to death. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56967
Re: [gentoo-dev] New category for version control
On 03/04/10 10:35, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 10:32:47 +0100 > Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Christian Faulhammer wrote: >>> My proposal would be to call it dev-scm and put all version >>> controls, direct frontends, plugins and the like into that. I like the idea, +1 from me >> Better call it dev-vcs to avoid confusion with both the Scheme >> language and with software configuration management. Agreed, "scm" is a bad choice. > And this is why the move wasn't done five years ago: by the time we'd > worked out everything we'd need to do by hand because epkgmove was > broken, the whole thing got bikeshedded to death. So that's a great chance for all of us to prove we can do better this time. We have at least two more names in the pool: VCS = version control system/software RCS = revision control system/software The former seems more common to me though the second seems prefered in wikipedia: - "Version_control" forwards to "Revision control" - "Comparison of revision control software" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software I'd still propose "dev-vcs", unless someone spots something bad about it. Sebastian
