resending due to NNTP error, sorry if it causes duplicates.
On 5/13/2012 2:01 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
On Sunday, May 13, 2012 13:48:39 Rainer Schuetze wrote:
On 5/11/2012 9:49 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 5/1/2012 9:46 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald
Can you please move it to github?
I considered that aswell recently, but I'm not yet convinced.
I see the increase in contributions to dmd after the move to github, but
my own experience with it has not been too positive: making patches for
dmd is rather time consuming, I always have to struggle to get the
simple stuff done (while it was just adding a diff to the bugzilla in
the subversion times). As a result, the number of patches that I have
provided has dropped considerably. My feeling is that git allows a lot
of complex things at the cost of making standard operations much more
complicated than necessary.
Using git/github is probably less work for you compared to svn, but this
also depends on a rather large infrastructure like the auto tester. I'm
not sure it does actually help for a project with very few contributors.
There haven't been a lot of community contributions to Visual D so far.
To everybody interested: Would a move to github change that?
You actually find patches to be easier than using github? That strikes me as
odd. I've always found patches to be a pain to deal with and git and github
have been really easy overall. You just make your changes on another branch,
push them up to github, and then create a pull request. If you're the one
merging in the changes, it's as easy as pushing the "merge" button the pull
request, and it's in the main repository.
Now, I don't deal with Visual D at all (I'm always on Linux, if nothing else),
so I wouldn't be a contributor, and I have no idea if very many more people
would be contribute if it were on github, but I'd definitely expect it to be
easier for people to contribute if it were up on github than it would be for
them to create patches and send those to you.
- Jonathan M Davis
The problem is that I need/want to use a branch of dmd that incorporates
a number of patches, and that is where I start making additional
changes. To send a pull request, I have to create a new branch, copy the
changes into it, push it and make the pull request. I have created a
batch to do that, but every other pull request something breaks and I
start cursing...
With the workflow of bugzilla/svn it was just copy and pasting the diff
into the bug report. I understand it is easier on Walter's side, though.
