On second thoughts it is really none of my business how the R sources are managed. But I would encourage package developers and/or r-forge maintainers to consider these systems. Regards -Felix
On 26 May 2010 10:29, Felix Andrews <fe...@nfrac.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Just wondering whether anyone had thought about moving the R sources > to a "distributed" version control system such as Bazaar, Git or > Mercurial. These new generation systems make it easier to work on > feature branches, allow working offline, are very fast, etc. > > Some projects that have moved to Git are > Linux Kernel > Perl > Ruby on Rails > ... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software) > > Some projects that have moved to Bazaar (bzr) are > Ubuntu > MySQL > Inkscape > ... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software) > > Some projects that have moved to Mercurial (hg) are > Mozilla > Octave > Python > ... > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software) > > Joel Spolky's take on it: > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/03/17.html > > Regards > -Felix > > -- > Felix Andrews / 安福立 > Postdoctoral Fellow > Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre > Fenner School of Environment and Society [Bldg 48a] > The Australian National University > Canberra ACT 0200 Australia > M: +61 410 400 963 > T: + 61 2 6125 4670 > E: felix.andr...@anu.edu.au > CRICOS Provider No. 00120C > -- > http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/ > -- Felix Andrews / 安福立 Postdoctoral Fellow Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) Centre Fenner School of Environment and Society [Bldg 48a] The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia M: +61 410 400 963 T: + 61 2 6125 4670 E: felix.andr...@anu.edu.au CRICOS Provider No. 00120C -- http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/ ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
