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| From: | felix winkelmann |
| Subject: | Re: [Chicken-users] Subversion support misguided IMHO |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Jan 2007 09:59:26 +0100 |
On 1/9/07, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 03:15:00PM -0800, Brandon J. Van Every wrote: > The Subversion dump could track change information. > > But the real issue is whether Peter is sufficiently interested in this > to dig into it. I don't know how much work it is for Felix to keep the svn up-to-date. Releasing snapshots on a regular basis is good enough for me, I basically use release versions of Chicken anyway. The point isn't that *I* can't use darcs, the point is that darcs doesn't work on all platforms, so "forcing" people to use darcs is not a smart move. As long as the egg repository stays subversion, I will be happy. But I still don't understand why Chicken as a project has to use two different versioning systems (or two separate repositories for eggs & chicken, for that matter).
Darcs is much more convenient for development that subversion, but fails with large repositories (and the eggs are already beyond what darcs can handle efficiently). Since I develop on different machines and like to stay flexible, I prefer and will keep darcs. The svn copy of chicken is just a mirror to make it easy for everybody to access the current development version of chicken. Keeping the subversion repo in sync is no big deal for me (I do it automatically on every commit to my local repository), and it is reasonably up to date. So please lets just close this discussion, since I see no reason to change the status quo. Everybody interested in core development can grab a darcs binary or just submit patches by hand. cheers, felix
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