Hi all As promised, I have converted the ecos CVS repository to mercurial and am making them available for public consumption.
You can browse and download them from here: http://hg-pub.ecoscentric.com/ For example, hg clone http://hg-pub.ecoscentric.com/ecos for the current trunk Or if you are using TortoiseHg, just set your source to http://hg-pub.ecoscentric.com/ecos when you clone. I will try keep this updated 1x per week with the latest set of checkins from CVS - full automation is still a bit unreliable - and will post up the images respository in a couple of days. Obviously this is read only, so pushing will get you nowhere and eCosCentric reserve the right to pull these repositories at any time. I believe I have preserved individual CVS changes correctly, although tags obviously will be hit-and-miss since CVS tags and DRCS tags are very different beasts. However, while you may get more files than you bargained for when you update to a tag in hg, I believe that the file revisions do correspond to those tagged within CVS - mostly ;-) I will post a summary of the conversion to the maintainers list later this week. However, I am not sure whether it is worthwhile posting a full evaluation of the different DRCS options as I initially said since this IMHO is analogous to trying to re-invent the wheel (there are so many other public evaluations out there). I will say this however. All three main DRCS systems I looked at were pretty much the same when it came down to technical features, with git being slightly faster and slightly more powerful (nothing to write home about though). However, hg was IMHO better when it came down to ease of use, visual tools, windows and GUI support and most importantly documentation. hg "just worked" on on both Windows and Linux, while git was more painful (both cygwin and native) to get properly installed and working on Windows (and cygwin was slooow!!!). bzr was slowest of the lot. YMMV. Feedback as usual welcome. Lets hope the public ecos maintainers don't take too long to pick up the hint, go distributed and join the 21st century. Go-on, just clone and serve - you know you really want to ;-) -- Alex Schuilenburg Managing Director/CEO eCosCentric Limited www.ecoscentric.com -- Before posting, please read the FAQ: http://ecos.sourceware.org/fom/ecos and search the list archive: http://ecos.sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss
