--- Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 19:37, Jon Smirl wrote: > > The BitKeeper people have said they would love to be the host for DRI/Mesa > > source. > > I strongly object to this, I won't take part in development with > non-free tools. If CVS really is a problem, there are free alternatives > which should be more than powerful enough for the DRI tree. The merge > arguments are moot, see > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg02472.html . >
BK is free to download. The free license has the quirky condition that you can't also develop a competing source code control tool. There are probably a thousand people using BK to work on the kernel right now. A few people working on the kernel had a conflict with this condition. Some bought a BK license which removes the restriction, others are using a read-only CVS gateway and mailing their patches to a person using BK. A side effect of using BK is that they are providing free hosting for BK projects on a high bandwidth server. SourceForge is really the main problem. PS - If you tried using BK for a while you'd quickly see why it is so much better than CVS. Peer to peer is a much better solution that CVS' client/server model. The BK architecture is 10 years ahead of CVS'. Several projects are trying to clone BK but none are close to being complete. > > -- > Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer > Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel ===== Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
