* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederman@lnxi.com> [050106 21:01]: > "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> writes: > > > bitkeeper anyone? I'm using it for a lot of projects and going back to > > sourceforge all the time is getting annoying. > > If we made regular releases bitkeeper might be an option. > As it is I have extreme problems with their free license.
I wrote some scripts doing daily snapshots a while ago when OpenBIOS was using bitkeeper. > Stefan how has using arch for openbios been working? I'm happy with it, some points: * It combines the flexibility, distribution and enhanced functionality (like decent merge algorithms) of bitkeeper and the open source development model and licensing. * There are .rpm and .deb packages available for all major distributions, clients for windows are also available. * It works with wide spread communication layers such as ssh, ftp or webdav * Due to it's distributed concept there is no "main" tree except through definition. There's no difference between a local repository and a remote one. * Syncing from/to a CVS tree is easy as long as there's only one sync direction. The available software even intelligently pairs CVS checked in files into changesets. Patrick Mauritz set up a local freebios2 arch tree like this a while ago on openbios.org. It was a matter of less than an hour iirc. * After the arch people were strictly focussed on a clean design they also take usability a lot more into regard these days. * To make life easier for OpenBIOS developers we have a tight howto available at http://www.openbios.org/experience/gnuarch.html All in all it is no harder than cvs or bk if you are new to it. * Repository browsing for the openbios arch repositories is available at http://www.openbios.org/cgi-bin/viewarch.cgi It works a lot like the well known viewcvs. * Unlike bitkeeper I have full control over my source trees sitting on my own machine with a reliable high speed connection. No dependency on bkbits or sourceforge.net resources/bandwidth. If you have concerns that should be met, tell me. Stefan _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list Linuxbios@clustermatic.org http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
