On Mar 13, 2015, at 4:22 PM, Graeme Pietersz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 14/03/15 03:01, Warren Young wrote: >> I believe that once you extract the hosting services from the comparison, >> Fossil comes out quite a bit ahead of Git. > Even without hosted services, Git still has integration with the likes of > Trac and Redmine, and , as James Moger pointed out, things like Gitlab, all > of which you can host yourself.
Yes, and you’re going to find out that setting them up is quite a lot more difficult than setting up Fossil. You’re trying to compare a hosted service, staffed by a full-time set of sysadmins and designers and such to Fossil. It would be just as unfair to try to compare ChiselApp to some Git+Trac+MediaWiki lash-up. > It is not a matter of blame, but of a real disadvantage. More like a trade-off, I think. > ChromeOS seems to be rather an odd choice for a development machine Mostly I did it just to see if it could be done, but Scott’s right, it makes a fine self-contained offline-editable wiki. Another practical use is on a Chromebook set up with Crouton [1] where actual software development and such takes place inside the chroot box, but you maintain a separate clone of the software repo outside the box on the ChromeOS side for answering tech support questions when you don’t want to bother firing up Crouton. You build the fossil binary while inside the chroot box, then scp it out before shutting Crouton down. Crouton + Ubuntu ends up being a cross-compilation environment for ChromeOS. And yes, I have used a Chromebook + Crouton for actual software development. For $200 and 3 pounds in my EDC bag, it’s a fine setup for cases where I don’t want to drag along the full-size laptop. To do better than a standard Chromebook for weight and size, you have to pay many times more for a Pixel or the new MacBook Nothin’. [1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
