Re: [glob2-devel] New Net Code Is Priority

[Kai Antweiler]

>> Ok.  I vote for new control system and network rebuild in an extra branch.
>> What do you have in mind?  Subversion?
>
> It looks like darcs is really small, clean and beautifull, does anyone 
> already 
> used such system ?

In a source distribution like gentoo linux you need the Glasgow
Haskell Compiler to use darcs (18 MB).
But gentoo users are used to download and compile alot.

I liked the things that I read about darcs.
There were a few minor issues:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/scm.html#darcs

1. It is writen in haskell.  (therefore small developer team)
2. The error messages are said to be bad.
3. It is slow.  ( even compaired to an old buggy monotone
                  http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Apps/scm.html#monotone )
4. you cannot revert back to an old overall version (let's say glob2-0.18)


But here is a major advantage:
"very easy to learn and easy to use"
http://zooko.com/revision_control_quick_ref.html

So I would give darcs a chance.


I think bazaar has the best concept:
"It aims to combine the best feature of all the new SCMs into a single
 coherent and simple system"
I was a bit confuse by the old bazaar and bazaar-ng.
It turned out that bazaar-ng has been renamed to bazaar.

And another big plus:
"... Bazaar-NG has financial backing from the company Canonical, who 
commercially support Ubuntu ..." ( http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html )


Monoton seems to be a good conservative and fast choice.


I don't have experience with any of these three SCMs.
They all sound good.  They all support unix, windows and mac os x.
And also conversion of old cvs archives.
Just throw a dice, if no one knows better.
-- 
Kai Antweiler