Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Converting AUCTeX CVS to a modern dVCS

[Tassilo Horn]

Ivan Andrus <address@hidden> writes:

> Awesome!  I would love to see this happen, particularly if it can help
> development along.

That's one of my main reasons to switch: get Ivan to work! ;-)

>> Opinions, problems, suggestions welcome!
>
> Personally, I'm a big fan of technical rather than political
> decisions.  I don't know either git or bzr very well (I use mostly
> hg), but I would slightly prefer git since there are several other
> projects that I am interested in which use git.

To me, there doesn't seem to be any major technical differences anymore.
Bzr used to be very slow compared to git, but it has become quite usable
in that respect over the time.

> For some reason I thought that AUCTeX would eventually be hosted
> inside the emacs tree.  Is that true at all?

It's still a project goal, yes.

> If that is a long term goal it _might_ be a reason to prefer bzr.

Neither git not bzr have some sync-between-different-repos support, so I
don't think there's any benefit in either direction.

Bye,
Tassilo