On Sunday 23 July 2006 20:28, John Goerzen wrote: > On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 01:42:26PM +0200, Marcus Better wrote: > > martin f krafft wrote: > > > Well, ideally the support tool should not impose on the structure > > > > Yes, svn-buildpackage is quite nice since it's easy to tell it about your > > layout. Something like that could work here as well. > > > > > SVN does not track merges across branches, unless you do it in the > > > changelog. > > > > I know, it's a pain in the neck. But still it's a good step forward over > > CVS, and seems to be quite popular in Debian. I hope svn will improve in > > this area. > > Or you could look at something such as darcs, that already has ;-) > > Really, I have been using darcs for package management for some time > now, and have found it very nice for that. See > http://darcs.complete.org/debian for a list. > > The distributed development model really shines here -- there is no need > to mess with committer lists, etc.
There are some hindrances preventing mass usage of darcs-buildpackage, but all of them are doable: a) there is no official darcs.debian.org service b) it is written in Haskell like darcs itself [1], and there are less people able and/or willing to hack on it c) a little bit more comprehensive documentation will be nice to have, as said in #327840. [1] I expect next <scm>-buildpackage (who's next, git ?) to be written in Ada (of course, no sarsasm is implied here), especially as gnat is getting better and better recently. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]