Hi Andreas, I cannot claim that I'm personally sticked to Perl. If anything, I'm looking for an excuse to do something in Python. Unfortunately Perl was what I knew best at the time I needed something like Scmbug built within a week.
I wouldn't oppose converting it to Python. Just don't expect *me* to do it! Or at least yet. Real life keeps getting in the way plenty already. I just hate the duplication of effort, you know... On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 23:05 +0100, Andreas Schreiber wrote: > Hi Kristis, > > we already had a look at scmbug a year ago, when we integrated our > Subversion > repository with our issue tracking (Mantis). At that time, we were > migrating from > CVS to Subversion and we just didn't wanted to extend and maintain our > long-grown > CVS hook scripts any more. > > To be honest, we have a really strong aversion against Perl. We are > definitely > not going to run software written in Perl, that is probably to be > changed by us. > We have discovered in various occasions, that it is a lot easier to > re-design > and re-implement a certain piece of software in Python than maintaining > Perl code > (of course, this is also true for a couple of other languages...). > > Mmh, so last year we implemented the "svnchecker" scripts, which > fulfilled > our requirements at the German Aerospace Center. We didn't plan to release > it under an Open Source license at the beginning. This came up the last > couple > of days, after some former colleagues urged us to make it available to > the public. > In general, developing Open Source software wasn't favored and not allowed > in our research lab. I'm currently trying to change that a bit... > > Are you sticked to Perl? Is that a must or requirement? > > Best regards, > Andreas > > On 09.01.2007 21:34, Kristis Makris wrote: > > Hi Andreas, > > > > I just so your posting on freshmeat about SVNChecker. What are the > > chances of getting your work merged in Scmbug > > http://freshmeat.net/projects/scmbug/ so that your checks become SCM > > agnostic instead of depending strictly on Subversion ? For example, we > > already implement some checks: > > > > http://files.mkgnu.net/files/scmbug/SCMBUG_RELEASE_0-19-7/manual/html-single/manual.html#VERIFICATION-CHECKS > > > > One immediate issue I see is that your work is implemented in Python > > while we use Perl (we are not proud of that) .I'd hate for your to > > reimplement some logic, especially since Scmbug is trying to solve the > > integration problem once and for all and you are addressing already > > issues we haven't. > > > > Thanks, > > Kristis > > > > > > _______________________________________________ scmbug-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mkgnu.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scmbug-users
