Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:31:09PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > Then you are voting for mercurial if you participated in popcon. > > > > vote: number of people who use this package regularly; > > Note that the vote is not that reliable either: it needs atime, which is

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-23 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 02:05:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Osamu Aoki wrote: >> Shorter summary of vote data goes as: >> >> cvs 5% >> subversion9% >> git-core 3% >> mercurial 0.6% >> darcs 0.3% >> bzr 0.3% >> > Does monotone not get a mention? or w

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Brian May
Osamu Aoki wrote: Shorter summary of vote data goes as: cvs 5% subversion9% git-core 3% mercurial 0.6% darcs 0.3% bzr 0.3% Does monotone not get a mention? or was monotone missed? Brian May -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Felipe Sateler
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Then you are voting for mercurial if you participated in popcon. > > vote: number of people who use this package regularly; Note that the vote is not that reliable either: it needs atime, which is getting less and less used. -- Felipe Sateler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:15:18AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > One of the most interesting thing I noticed by doing this was change in > popularity of VCS. (Just 1/2 year r so). Readers of this thread might be interested in the popularity of VCS used to _maintain_ Debian packages. Since a few days

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080522 14:36]: > The large "installed" with low "vote" may be indication that people has > found some new good alternative for a popular tool of yesterday. >(RCS -> DVCS such as git, mercurial, ...) I think this is only a part of an explanation and more suitea

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I did not mean to say that VCS in low numbers are unpopular. Instead, my message should be understood as there are many popular VCSs and popularity of use is moving. On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:27:40PM +0200, Michal Čihař wrote: > Dne Wed, 21 May 2008 15:10:14 -0500 > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Ben Finney
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, and I'm not sure it actually conflicts or invalidates or even > causes questions of the popcon data, but installs, at least, may not > mean that much. On my main home box, several years old now, I've got > all of cvs, svn, rcs[1], mercurial, git,

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Michal Čihař
Dne Wed, 21 May 2008 15:10:14 -0500 Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napsal(a): > FWIW, and I'm not sure it actually conflicts or invalidates or even > causes questions of the popcon data, but installs, at least, may not > mean that much. On my main home box, several years old now, I've got all

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 03:10:14PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 21-May-08, 11:15 (CDT), Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) > > > > I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this > > effort, I made snapshot of pop

Re: FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Greenland
On 21-May-08, 11:15 (CDT), Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) > > I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this > effort, I made snapshot of popularity of packages. > > One of the most interesting thing I noticed by do

FYI: VCS choice these days

2008-05-21 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this effort, I made snapshot of popularity of packages. One of the most interesting thing I noticed by doing this was change in popularity of VCS. (Just 1/2 year r so). When I start