On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:06:02PM -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote: > On Wed, 2006-08-11 at 13:05 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:22, Andrew Overholt wrote: > > > This plan basically goes out the window if we move to something other > > > than CVS or SVN because there either isn't a plugin at all or isn't a > > > mature plugin for the other VC systems being considered. This is not to > > > say that it won't change in the future, but as of now, the only things > > > we can support are CVS (part of the Eclipse SDK) and SVN > > > (eclipse-subclipse in Extras). > > > > > > I know a final decision has yet to be made, but please take Eclipse > > > support into consideration. > > > > > > I'm obviously not asking everyone to use Eclipse for their Fedora > > > package work, but I'm hoping to make it so nice that at least some > > > people will *want* to do so :) > > > > Wouldn't having a major distributions workflow involve something like git or > > hg add motivation to create Eclipse plugins for these SCMs? > > Perhaps. Our group doesn't have the time or peoplepower to do this, > though. Perhaps the various attempts at writing these plugins will pan > out. > > > Many upstream > > projects are transitioning to either git, or hg because of the > > distributedness of it, something you can't get from CVS or SVN. > > I don't personally see the need for the distributedness when it comes to > Fedora packaging stuff. But perhaps I'm missing something. The thing about distributed SCM is that they don't force you to work in a distributed mode - you can still use a workflow that's pretty much same as in a centralized model, but if you want to take advantage of the distributedness it is there for you. Personally the two aspects I find most compelling are complete access to repository when offline (great for working on laptops remotely), and distributed backups. So compelling I used distributed SCM for all my projects even if I'm the only one working on it. Keith Packard has an interesting article about this in a little more depth http://keithp.com/blog/Repository_Formats_Matter.html Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
