Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) @ Pike (-) developers forum wrote:
>accidental wording. The part I have a hard time believing is that
>most existing projects are switching to git. Even if a lot of
>projects are, there are tons of open source projects. sourceforge
>alone contains 290808 projects, and they don't provide git
>repositories (only CVS and svn).
True. What I probably mean by "most open source projects", is that of
the people that I know from the Open Source community which have been
around since at least 1994, the majority speaks highly of git and is
moving all their projects into it or will do so in a short while.
You're completely right that in sheer numbers, that doesn't account for
"most" open source projects. But it's the projects I care about, and
they are the people who's opinion I value, hence the somewhat rapid
and probably biased conclusion (I guess I consider them trendsetters,
and the rest of the projects trendfollowers).
E.g. most GNU projects use git as their master repositories these days.
>Yup. This is a hypotheses which the graph _does_ give support to at
>least. :-) Or possibly that there are now more non-developers using
>popularity contest. (Didn't they change so that it always asks during
>installation now, instead of you having to enable it manually?)
I think yes. But I rarely perform raw installations these days, I
simply copy a similar system, and then remove/add packages to taste.
--
Sincerely,
Stephen R. van den Berg.
"People who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do."
