Re: [Squeak-VMdev] SourceForge or SqueakForge?

[Andreas R. <and...@gm...>]

Hi Guys,

>> we started yacking about this stuff way back in march and don't seem to
>> have come to any conclusion yet. Since I'm getting bits together for the
>> first 3.8 VMMaker package I'd like to know where we are going to go.
>>
>> >From my limited understanding of these things I get the impression that
>> Subversion would be a better choice than CVS. It at least _claims_ to
>> do better on some of the irritating things. Does anybody disagree
>> strongly? Does anyone know if it is amenable to a nice Squeak
>> client solution? Goran, you did SqCVS (well nearly, remember...) would
>> you feel up to SQuVersion?
>
> Well, I have now spent a few hours looking at the available alternatives
> and I am actually leaning towards Darcs (or possibly Monotone) instead
> of Subversion. They are both distributed solutions and seems to fit us
> better than a centralized solution.

I'm not convinced of that. I think the CVS server suited us just fine and I
wouldn't mind continuing to use CVS (it has definitely the best clients)
except for the feature list of subversion - it seems that the guys who did
it really understand what's wrong with CVS.

> http://abridgegame.org/darcs
> http://www.venge.net/monotone
>
> (I rejected Arch due to high complexity and problems on Win32 or other
> non POSIX platforms.

Both of the above are thumbs-down from my POV. Darcs just seems ... odd and
there isn't much to read about "how it works" (if you have a good url for
the "theory of patches" I'd be interested in finding out more). Monotone
looks cool (with p2p synchronization and such) but I think that the current
set of maintainers prefers some control over the sources that are considered
"official".

>> Given a decision to move that way, where is a good place to host it? Is
>> it plausible on SqueakFoundation.org?
>
> Yes, it is. If you give me a day or two I will try Darcs and see if I
> can set it up at SqF to test.

Err ... no thank you - how about subversion and/or cvs instead? ;-)

Cheers,
  - Andreas