Re: [Dri-devel] Re: Sourceforge CVS

[Jon S. <jon...@ya...>]

--- Michel Dänzer <mi...@da...> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 19:37, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > The BitKeeper people have said they would love to be the host for DRI/Mesa
> > source.
> 
> I strongly object to this, I won't take part in development with
> non-free tools. If CVS really is a problem, there are free alternatives
> which should be more than powerful enough for the DRI tree. The merge
> arguments are moot, see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/de...@xf.../msg02472.html .
> 

BK is free to download. The free license has the quirky condition that you
can't also develop a competing source code control tool. There are probably a
thousand people using BK to work on the kernel right now. A few people working
on the kernel had a conflict with this condition. Some bought a BK license
which removes the restriction, others are using a read-only CVS gateway and
mailing their patches to a person using BK.

A side effect of using BK is that they are providing free hosting for BK
projects on a high bandwidth server. SourceForge is really the main problem.

PS - If you tried using BK for a while you'd quickly see why it is so much
better than CVS. Peer to peer is a much better solution that CVS' client/server
model. The BK architecture is 10 years ahead of CVS'. Several projects are
trying to clone BK but none are close to being complete.

> 
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