-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 (Whoops, of course I meant to send this to the list, rather than to Tony alone. Resent. Sorry Tony!)
Tony Lewis wrote: > Micah Cowan wrote: > >> As I see it, the biggest concern over using git would be multiplatform >> support. AFAICT, git has a great developer community, but a rather >> Linux-focused one. And while, yes, there is Win32 support, the >> impression I have is that it significantly lags Unix/Linux support. >> Mozilla rejected it early on due to this conclusion > > The Mozilla community (with a large base of Win32 programmers) rejected an > open-source package that met their needs better than other packages because > it didn't have good enough Win32 support? Why didn't they just add in the > Win32 support so that the rest of the world that cares about Win32 support > could benefit from it? How is "good enough Win32 support" not part of "their needs"? :) Like everything, there is a balance--a trade-off. Whatever aspects that git possessed that other systems didn't, apparently was not comparable to the amount of work involved in adding proper Win32 support. They may have just been minor niceties, who knows? They didn't say, or refer to what specifically git did well that the other systems didn't. Asking any development community to take time away from their core project to work on something else is not a small thing, though it is of course how git was born in the first place. >> git vs hg. > > It's a good thing I remember a little high-school chemistry or I'd have no > idea what that meant. I'm assuming "hg" == "Mercurial", but shouldn't it be > hgial? :-) Well, it would probably be more proper if the h were capitalized. What you're seeing is an inconsistency in how we're refer to these SCMs: by their proper names, or by their program names; hg is to Mercurial as svn is to Subversion, and as bzr is to (modern) Bazaar. Which is as git is to Git. :) But yeah, the command-line name is because of the chemical designation. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer... http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG8vrh7M8hyUobTrERCA5dAJ429wHdD2G/6yaQcZyDpblFtOpxqwCfbrj1 Cbj5VihxnXk02xdRTp/YNSM= =A7Bj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
