At Mon, 24 May 2010 19:47:00 +0200, joel falcou wrote:
Just askign around. Can't ryppl be CVS agnostic ? or at least support stuff like Mercurial and Bazaar as an option ? It seems counterproductive to be tied to git for the distribution part.
Joel: 0. Cross-posting to the ryppl-dev list 1. Yes, in principle it can support those other VCSes. In fact, there's infrastructure in PIP that allows the specifics of the VCS to be abstracted away. 2. My priority is on smoothness of operation. I want all the workflows described at http://ryppl.org/workflows.html to be as painless as possible, and I'm perfectly happy to mandate the use of Git for ryppl if it is going to make the difference between “just works” and “hassle.” If you really want to use Mercurial for your own development you can always leverage hg-git (http://hg-git.github.com), and I'm sure there's something similar for bzr. 3. At the risk of alienating some people… I believe Git is going to win the DVCS wars. It has the momentum. And as truly obnoxious as Linus' remarks about other VCSes have been, I have been working with them too recently, and I am forced to agree with him. So I'm personally not interested in investing much effort in other VCSes. 4. However, if someone comes along who wants to do the work, and can make me confident that s/he'll maintain it, and can make me confident that the system won't have to sacrifice usability, well then I have no objections :^) -- Dave Abrahams Meet me at BoostCon: http://www.boostcon.com BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com