Re: source repository

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

  > > From: Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden>
  > > Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:14:16 +0300
  > > Cc: Jason Rumney <address@hidden>
  > > 
  > > > You understood incorrectly. Some developers use arch, but the 
definitive 
  > > > repository for Emacs is CVS. Since Miles is away at the moment, the 
arch 
  > > > synching is not happening. I'm not sure why savannah lists arch above 
  > > > cvs (probably it is alphabetical order), but it is misleading - there 
  > > > should be some indication there that the main repository is CVS.
  > > 
  > > Oh.  A pity Emacs still uses so old system.
  > 
  > Why should we care how old it is, if it suits our needs?  We are not
  > exactly spoiled by abundance of free resources to invest effort in
  > jobs that are ``nice to have''.  Just think how many man-hours will be
  > wasted if every Emacs developer and contributor will have to install,
  > learn, and set up an unfamiliar configuration management package.

Well, one thing that is missing in emacs right now for most version
control is something similar to PCL-CVS. That would make life much
easier for emacs developers not really familiar with a particular
version control system. And on top of that, it would be extremely
useful for all emacs users.