From: <don...@is...> - 2009-06-05 22:01:38
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> CVS and SVN are going the way of RCS to extinction. This sounds like the argument for leaving lisp to go to smalltalk (or c++ or java ...) > While there are (and there always will be) users for any obsolete > technology (think of people running dosemu/freedos ... 1. Do you have any reliable statistics on how many users of each package there are? Are you sure that you're not describing a drop in the CVS market share from 92% to 90% ? 2. Is there any reason to believe that hg won't be replaced next year by something else that will be replaced again the following year by something else, etc.? I seem to remember not long ago hearing the same argument about switching to svn. Saying that CVS is obsolete or that other people are switching does not seem to me a legitimate reason to switch. If the people who actually make the most use of the system (I don't view myself as one of those peope) prefer the switch, that seems to me a sufficient reason for the switch. I'd still be interested in their reasons, since those reasons might convince me to switch in other cases I actually control. Your suggestion of a yum install, btw, won't work on machines that don't have yum. I have many times wanted to build clisp on machines that don't have a wide variety of similar utilities, in some cases running rather old OS versions. Fortunately, I can usually get clisp to build on such systems. It would be pretty sad if the only reason to not be able to build it were the inability to get the source! Since I do have some machines with yum, I could at worst get the clisp source on one of those machines and then copy it to the others. Any ideas for people without yum or hg ? I'm assuming I won't have any trouble installing hg - remains to be seen. |