On Aug 1, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Tassilo Horn wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd love to move the auctex sources to some modern distributed version > control system. I now had some time to do some testing, and AFAICS the > conversions look ok. There are some minor things that need to be fixed, > e.g., there are some old committers I don't know and that aren't listed > on the savannah project page.
Awesome! I would love to see this happen, particularly if it can help development along. I haven't had much time for AUCTeX development (and maybe never will), but using a dvcs might make it easier to make and contribute a few small fixes here and there since I wouldn't have to worry about getting commit access etc. Once it's on another VCS it will become easier to install it via MELPA. > It would be good if others have a look at the conversions to check if > everything's allright. > > Ok, so there's one conversion to Git. You can clone it like so: > > % git clone http://tsdh.org/auctex.git > > And alternatively, there's a conversion to GNU Bazaar. Branch the trunk > branch like so (right now, there's no support for cloning a complete > shared repo with all branches, but it's on the bzr TODO list): > > % bzr branch http://www.tsdh.org/auctex.bzr/trunk auctex > > I don't have a strong opinion about what dVCS we'll eventually use. Git > seems to be a bit more popular (I also know it much better) and the Git > repo is about 10 times smaller than the bzr one. Bazaar on the other > hand is a GNU project like AUCTeX and claims to be easier to use and > probably better supported on Windows. > > Opinions, problems, suggestions welcome! Personally, I'm a big fan of technical rather than political decisions. I don't know either git or bzr very well (I use mostly hg), but I would slightly prefer git since there are several other projects that I am interested in which use git. For some reason I thought that AUCTeX would eventually be hosted inside the emacs tree. Is that true at all? If that is a long term goal it _might_ be a reason to prefer bzr. -Ivan _______________________________________________ auctex-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex-devel
