Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-04-09 Thread Roland Mainz
Stephen Hahn wrote: > The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion > and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze > out for projects that believe they require Subversion for their tools. > The primary consolidation driving the distributed SCM c

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-04-09 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-09 18:06]: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion > > and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze > > out for projects that believe they require Subversion for their too

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-04-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
> * Roland Mainz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-09 18:06]: >> Stephen Hahn wrote: >> > The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion >> > and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze >> > out for projects that believe they require Subversion for th

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-04-28 Thread Stephen Lau
Roland Mainz wrote: Stephen Hahn wrote: The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze out for projects that believe they require Subversion for their tools. The primary consolidation driving the distr

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > >> The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion > >> and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze > >> out for projects that believe they require Subversion

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-01 Thread Stephen Hahn
* Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-01 16:03]: > Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Roland Mainz wrote: > > > Stephen Hahn wrote: > > > > > >> The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion > > >> and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 4/28/06, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Roland Mainz wrote: > Stephen Hahn wrote: > >> The plan of record for hosting source code is to support Subversion >> and (now) Mercurial as a per-repository choice, so there's no freeze >> out for projects that believe they require Subversion

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren J Moffat
Holger Berger wrote: > What does that mean for "ON" - will the main OS/Net repository on > opensolaris.org be based on Subversion or on Mercurial ? Mercurial. I think this choice is very very bad. Almost no utility software supports Mercurial which will not be very attractive to developers. Yo

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Dick Davies
On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large other open source project also moving to Mercurial, can't remember which one. Xen. -- Rasputin :: Jack of All Trades - Master of Nuns http://number9.hellooperator.net

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large > other open source project also moving to Mercurial, can't remember which > one. Xen. Let me guess: Someone from

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread John Levon
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Holger Berger wrote: > On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large > >> other open source project also moving

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Holger Berger
On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holger Berger wrote: >> > What does that mean for "ON" - will the main OS/Net repository on >> > opensolaris.org be based on Subversion or on Mercurial ? >> >> Mercurial. > > I think this choice is very very bad. Almost no utility software > s

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Chris Ricker
On Tue, 2 May 2006, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:49:10PM +0200, Holger Berger wrote: > > > On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty dar

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Dick Davies
On 02/05/06, Holger Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/2/06, Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/05/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large > > other open source project also moving to Mercurial, c

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:10 +0200, Holger Berger wrote: > Almost no utility software > supports Mercurial which will not be very attractive to developers. Hi, Holger - Of course the third party tools that support Mercurial are not yet as widespread and diverse as those around Subversion or CVS.

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-02 Thread Darren Reed
Holger Berger wrote: On 5/2/06, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... For example Teamware needs ws(1) and wx(1) utility software to be useful for ON development on a large scale but you can cope without them. Also I'm sure I heard somewhere else that there was a pretty darn large ot

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-04 Thread Joerg Schilling
Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does this mean that Sun will stop using TeamWare? > > It means that, for the development release, the ON consolidation will > stop using TeamWare. The other consolidations of Solaris and other > products are empowered to make independent tools cho

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-04 Thread Bonnie Corwin
Joerg Schilling wrote On 05/04/06 03:39,: > Stephen Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>>Does this mean that Sun will stop using TeamWare? >> >> It means that, for the development release, the ON consolidation will >> stop using TeamWare. The other consolidations of Solaris and other >> pro

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-04 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 2 May 2006, Holger Berger wrote: Hello? I was talking about Mercurial support in other applications such as source browsers, search engines, backup tools, ticket generators, patch signers, splicers, bot and daemon support (for generating RSS feeds, commit emails, firewall and proxy sup

Re: Main OS/Net repository - based on "Subversion" or "Mercurial" ? / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Distributed source codemanagement selection, draft

2006-05-04 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On 5/2/06, Darren Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW, both FreeBSD and NetBSD currently use CVS for their projects and while there are "known issues" with CVS, so far evaluations of other tools (ie. SVN) have failed to produce compelling reasons to switch. Almost all FreeBSD developers use th