On Mon, Apr 28, 2014, LRN wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 28.04.2014 22:42, Adrien Nader wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014, Matthew Brett wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:04 AM, John E. / TDM <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >>> On 4/28/2014 5:17 AM, JonY wrote: > >>>> mingw-w64 may migrate from svn to git in the future, seeing that sf > >>>> can now do multiple repos per project. > >>> *snip* > >>>> Discuss. > >>> > >>> I'm a bit surprised at the choice of Git -- in my experience, Windows > >>> developers usually prefer Mercurial (<http://mercurial.selenic.com/>) > >>> because on Windows it is more lightweight and performant than Git. > >>> > >>> I also prefer Mercurial to Git because I find its syntax and workflow > >>> more intuitive. This is of course personal taste. > >>> > >>> Mercurial repositories are also available in SourceForge. But if the > >>> primary MinGW-w64 contributors are all more familiar with Git then I > >>> suppose it shall be Git. > >>> > >>> My two cents. :) > >> > >>> From the sidelines - a big yes please for switching to git. In my > >> experience, the ease of git branching makes it far more comfortable > >> making and proposing changes, even substantial changes. > >> > >> I hear the same is true of mercurial, but I know it much less well. > >> > >> I very much like the github pull-request system for code review - does > >> sourceforge have something similar? I know bitbucket does. For the > >> projects I'm involved in, pull requests make proposing changes very > >> fluid, and they are good for recording discussion as well. > > > > I quite dislike github and its UI in particular. Uses flash on every page > > (no idea what for) and lots of javascript which makes my laptop heat and > > get noisy when displaying something as small as a 3-lines diff. > > > > Anyway, is there an advantage github's pages over doing it on the > > mailing-list like it is currently done? The amount of messages which > > comes from that doesn't seem to be an issue. > > You can do pull-requests with mailing lists [1] > > [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6235379
I'm aware of most of the things available to minimize contact with the Web UIs of github; I find there's something telling about their availability. ;p -- Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available. Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
