On 07/16/2011 06:00 PM, Jason Earl wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16 2011, Thomas Jollans wrote: > >> On 07/16/2011 10:32 AM, Andrew Berg wrote: >>> Does anyone know if there are any services that have cross-project >>> integration? I can see myself closing a ton of bug reports just because >>> they are issues with the library part of the program, which will be a >>> separate project (because there will be other projects based on that >>> same library). >> >> Launchpad has a cross-project bug tracker. Launchpad also uses the >> excruciatingly slow (but distributed, and written-in-python) bzr for >> version control. > > I think that you will find that recent versions of bzr are no longer > slow, at least compared to Mercurial. My experience with bzr is with > the Emacs project, and it is true that there were some performance when > it first switched. Most of the problems, however, were due to the fact > that that the GNU server hosting the Emacs bzr repository did not allow > updates via the bzr protocol but instead forced the use of a dumb > transport (sftp). > > You don't have that problem when using Launchpad. > > I will certainly agree that bzr's past problems have made it difficult > for the system to gain traction. The perception is that bzr is unusably > slow. This is too bad, IMHO, as Launchpad is pretty cool.
I haven't used it in quite a while, so I'll take your word for it. bzr used to be a lot slower that Mercurial on *local* operations. Mercurial is, and has always been, only marginally slower than git. And let's not speak of darcs. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
