>> Ok. I vote for new control system and network rebuild in an extra branch. >> What do you have in mind? Subversion? > > It looks like darcs is really small, clean and beautifull, does anyone > already > used such system ?
In a source distribution like gentoo linux you need the Glasgow Haskell Compiler to use darcs (18 MB). But gentoo users are used to download and compile alot. I liked the things that I read about darcs. There were a few minor issues: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/scm.html#darcs 1. It is writen in haskell. (therefore small developer team) 2. The error messages are said to be bad. 3. It is slow. ( even compaired to an old buggy monotone http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/scm.html#monotone ) 4. you cannot revert back to an old overall version (let's say glob2-0.18) But here is a major advantage: "very easy to learn and easy to use" http://zooko.com/revision_control_quick_ref.html So I would give darcs a chance. I think bazaar has the best concept: "It aims to combine the best feature of all the new SCMs into a single coherent and simple system" I was a bit confuse by the old bazaar and bazaar-ng. It turned out that bazaar-ng has been renamed to bazaar. And another big plus: "... Bazaar-NG has financial backing from the company Canonical, who commercially support Ubuntu ..." ( http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html ) Monoton seems to be a good conservative and fast choice. I don't have experience with any of these three SCMs. They all sound good. They all support unix, windows and mac os x. And also conversion of old cvs archives. Just throw a dice, if no one knows better. -- Kai Antweiler _______________________________________________ glob2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/glob2-devel
