Re: [ECOS] Looking in a future: VCS for eCos 3.0

[Sergei Gavrikov <sergei dot gavrikov at gmail dot com>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 02:55:21PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> Sergei Gavrikov wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > It's possible it is an off-topic, but, looking in the nearest future of
> > eCos project http://sourceware.org/ml/ecos-discuss/2008-07/msg00057.html
> > I did think, It's possible, it is a good moment to change VCS (version
> > control system) for eCos development? A couple of years it was/is CVS.
> > The CVS has a well know limitations, and today, most of the developers
> > select Distributed VCS. The famous are bk, git, hg. ... I do not want
> > to fire the VCS flame here, but, if in the "eCos 3.0 planning" said
> 
> A switch of VCS is probably something to tackle very soon after eCos 3.0
> rather than before. I agree that it's time to move forward from CVS.
> 
> I've had a look at Bazaar and would need a bit of convincing personally, at
> the least at this stage of its development.  I found this an interesting
> read:
> http://sayspy.blogspot.com/2006/11/bazaar-vs-mercurial-unscientific.html
> (including the comments). I'm still more inclined towards Mercurial,
> although SVN is an obvious possibility just really due to its more
> widespread use and slightly better client support (in addition both of
> which are available on sourceware.org, but Bazaar isn't). But I'd really
> really prefer to have something distributed.
> 
> When the time comes, we can see what it looks like then. The decision isn't
> just mine of course.

Jonathan, thank you for your responce! I have become to think what I
will be alone voter :-) I would vote for either mercurial or bazaar.
Both are Distributed VCS, both are cross-platforms, both are written in
Python (but mercurial has `diff' is written in C, so, `hg' did penalty
`bzr' in 2006, bzr'2008 is faster). I would not vote for SVN, just
thinking: If it is elder, therefore, it is more stable and clever. I
found again what I read about bazaar's strength in 2007 from Mark
Shuttleworth http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/123 (with the
comments). It is interesting to read too. Thank you for your link.

Sergei

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