Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: monotone CVS import failed.

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 08:54:32PM +0200, Ulf Ochsenfahrt wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> >Isn't bzr based on svn?  Does this mean we've also accomplished 
> >conversion to bzr?
> 
> Nope. bzr is a rewrite of baz (in python), which is based on tla, which 
> is/was a rewrite of larch (in C). larch was originally written by Tom 
> Lord in shell script.
> 
> The bzr people claim complete distributiveness, which IIRC wasn't true 
> for baz, and which definitely isn't true for svn.

I'm not sure how you measure the completeness of distributiveness, but
it is the case that bzr is not just a rewrite of baz but also a
complete re-design.  There are a few almost stylistic hints that the
same team was involved with both code bases (e.g., both have a concept
called an "inventory", which is like a roster but with public node
ids), but bzr is really an entirely different system from anything
else.

-- Nathaniel

-- 
"Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself
 Outside the ordinary range
 Of what are called statistics."
  -- Stephan Spender