On Mar 18, 2010, at 8:22 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> Personally, I'm a big fan of git, but I could understand perhaps one >> reason for why it wasn't chosen. Mercurial has better Windows support. >> Git has mediocre Windows support (last I checked at least.) That could >> very well be a deciding factor here, but it's hard to say. > > If you have some non-coder like me who has done most of the recent work > trying to get ioq3 compiling with Visual Studio, I'm pretty sure windows > platform support for tools is a pretty low priority for switching. Pretty > much no one else cares about that windows-only tool. I view msys/mingw as > just a fake linux on windows, honestly, as it doesn't really leverage > anything about the windows platform, just some CLI stuff. > > Just sayin'. > > Monk.
Don't undervalue support for other platforms, the fact that hg is a versioning system and git is more akin to a zip-lock baggie full of broken glass that could resemble a versioning system that won't work on non-Linux platforms is one of the main reasons why we're not going to use git. Whereas for windows you can get this: http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/ and on macs I can use the command line and be happy. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
