Re: Choosing a moment for the Bazaar switchover.

[Karl Fogel]

Jason Earl <address@hidden> writes:
> That being the case, I don't think that it would be wise to switch to
> bzr right now.  For one thing a minor bug in bzr's fast-import plugin
> has made it impossible for me to generate new emacs-merges repositories
> from Andreas' git repository in anything but the bleeding edge
> brisbane-core formats.  I tried poking at this bug a bit myself, but I
> quickly found myself out of my depth.  Ian Clatworthy is working on it
> now.  Here's the bug report if you are interested.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr-fastimport/+bug/345602

*nod*  Thank you; yes, that's very helpful to know.

> The other advantage of waiting is that bzr really is still in a state of
> considerable flux.  I have really come to love bzr, but it is hard to
> ignore the fact that the bzr devs make considerable changes on a monthly
> basis.  I think that it might well be in Emacs' best interests to at
> least wait until the new repository format lands.

I'd love to know what causes your impression of "a state of flux".  I
have some ideas, but don't want to taint your impressions by stating
them yet -- would rather hear from you.

NOTE: I think the Bazaar developers would like to know, too, so I've set
Reply-to on this mail to go to the Bazaar list.  The thread would get
off-topic for emacs-devel at this point anyway -- anyone who does a
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-Karl