On 07/01/2011 00:34, David Nadlinger wrote:
On 1/6/11 11:47 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
Mercurial on dsource.org …
Personally, I'd really like to persuade Walter, you, and whoever else
actually decides this to consider hosting the main repository at an
external place like GitHub or Mercurial, because DSource has been having
some real troubles with stability, although it got slightly better again
recently. The problem is somewhat alleviated when using a DVCS, but
having availabilities the main source repositories is not quite the best
form of advertisement for a language.
Additionally, the UI of GitHub supports the scenario where only a few
people (or Walter alone) actually have commit/push access to the main
repository really well through cheap forks which stay logically
connected to he main repository and merge requests. The ability to make
comments on specific (lines in) commits, also in combination with pull
requests, is awesome as well.
I have to agree and reiterate this point. The issue of whether it is
worthwhile for D to move to a DVCS (and which one of the two) is
definitely a good thing to consider, but the issue of DSource vs. other
code hosting sites is also quite a relevant one. (And not just for DMD
but for any project.)
I definitely thank Brad for his support and work on DSource, however I
question if it is the best way to go for medium or large-sized D
projects. Other hosting sites will simply offer better/more features
and/or support, stability, less bugs, spam-protection, etc..
What we have here is exactly the same issue of NIH syndrome vs DRY, but
applied to hosting and development infrastructure instead of the code
itself. But I think the principle applies just the same.
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Bruno Medeiros - Software Engineer
