On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 16:20 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mar 23 janvier 2007 15:00, Ralf Corsepius a écrit :
>
> > So, all in all, you should better make all these VCS stuff entirely
> > transparent (Implement applications around it), or you'd better off
> > using something standardized, ... which ATM, would reduce the choice to
> > svn or CVS.
>
> A lot of big projects (Linux, Xorg, Java VM, etc)
... all comparatively small in comparison to Fedora ...
A Fedora package VCS is comparatively simple, but it's BIG, very BIG.
> are moving either to git
> or hg today. hg/git are not "exotic", bazar/svn increasingly are (git/hg
> are really the same choice as they're very similar fonctionnality-wise)
>
> You have the following history
>
> A. CVS sucks, but everybody but Linus uses it
Exactly, ... because it doesn't suck as much as some people want to make
believe and because it's still very usable.
> E. Public use of git and hg by big projects inspire confidence.
If things work out ... if not ... it pisses people off from FEDORA.
> SVN was last year's good choice.
Well, I beg to differ ...
... last decade's trap, many people fell into.
> CVS was last decade bad default.
... known deficiencies/issues + experience + wide userbase
== confidence and usability ;)
Ralf
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