Please look into gittorrent. While there are still important (at least to my mind) gaps between git and Arch (things missing from the former that are at least pointed out by the latter) nevertheless gittorrent looks initially like an important development that helps narrow the gap. I wanted to go someplace similar with GNU Arch.
Arch does better than git in taxonimizing versioned objects and in its management of coding history, branching, merging, etc.... but Arch shares with gittorrent this idea of distributed, decentralized revision control -- free software source code should be just sort of "floating" on a meta-net, on the Internet, over a P2P layer -- just so. This is a political goal because of the "decentralization" part. We also have a lot of work to do on the economics of the emerging ecosystem of free software source code and because economics "wants" to be "transactional" -- and because of the nature of the natural unit of a "transaction" in software source code development and support -- the economics of how free software can be a career and the formality imposed by a global-scale, distributed, decentralized revision control system are closely intertwined. Issuing a "commit" command should be an economically significant act -- a "transaction" in both senses of the word. But that's a larger, future topic, for now. For now: please do look into gittorrent and share your impressions. Have they actually made progress on distributed, decentralized revision control? Are their politics in order? Thanks, -t _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
