Re: [Gaim-cabal] pidgin.im server stuff

[Gary K. <gr...@re...>]

Mark Doliner wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:17:39 -0500, Gary Kramlich wrote
>> Sean Egan wrote:
>>> I think that's about it. Luke has a box sitting in a data center for
>>> us, and we're gonna try to get up as soon as possible, so we can copy
>>> our svn repositiory over and we can use it for top seceret cabalish
>>> Pidgin stuff.
>> I thought we were looking at distributed SCMs...
> 
> I guess we should decide on this one way or the other?  Are there any
> distributed SCMs that people like using?
> 
> I wasn't a big fan of the web-based repository browser for Bazaar when I
> looked at it.  I like ViewVC much more, but that might only be because I'm
> familiar with it
> 
> I'm in favor of Subversion over everything else because it's popular and
> people are familiar with it.  I feel like the Gaim project is short on
> developers as it is, and using an SCM that few people have experience with
> will raise the barrier of entry to anyone considering contributing.  And
> Subversion has met all my needs.
> 
> -Mark

Ok, aparently you missed all of the issues with subversion that I ran
into when trying to finish up the core/ui split patch.  The main problem
being that svn up does NOT track moves.  Which is why the tree
restructure needed to be scripted so that it would work properly.
Besides that, as we've discussed on nathan's wiki (see the version
control section of http://faceprint.net/gaimwiki/index.cgi?Post2Point0).
 On top of that, Luke has mentioned numerous times how we always seem to
have many side projects going on inside of gaim.  For example, the vv
stuff, the msn v13 stuff, gobjectification, etc...  Using a SCM that can
track those sorts of branching and merging will be of much more benefit
to us.

Luke and myself were playing with GIT for awhile.  Luke has spent a lot
more time with it than I have, I know Ethan is partial to Monotone, and
well there are more comments in the wiki.

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Gary Kramlich <gr...@re...>