Re: SourceForge reorganization may affect gnuplot development site

[Allin C. <cot...@wf...>]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Daniel J Sebald wrote:

> On 10/04/2012 04:35 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm not sure the repositories themselves are being replaced, but the
>>> other items are changing (e.g., bug tracker, etc.).  However, CVS seems
>>> to be downplayed a bit and only SVN, mercurial and git are listed as
>>> supported.  So, if when upgrading, gnuplot is forced to choose one of
>>> those three, then it is essentially the same as replacing.  Not that
>>> "upgrading" from CVS is bad.  (I've used mercurial pretty much and that
>>> seems nice.)
>>
>> Probably not at this point, but I suspect that sooner or later CVS
>> will be phased out and it might happen that it won't be supported in
>> future at all. [...]
>
> I would say that either git or mercurial would be a better choice than
> SVN.

No doubt opinions will differ on this. Svn is closest to CVS, and 
therefore easiest to learn for people who are used to CVS, while 
offering various advantages over the latter. Git is very 
full-featured and is the VC system used by many leading open-source 
projects (notably the Linux kernel and the GNU C library) and 
therefore may be worth learning even though it's not close to CVS.

For me personally, mercurial would be the last choice, simply 
because up to this point no software that I'm interested in resides 
in a mercurial repository.

Allin Cottrell