From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S271879AbTGRWOk (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S271844AbTGRWLf (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:11:35 -0400 Received: from aneto.able.es ([212.97.163.22]:63935 "EHLO aneto.able.es") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S271859AbTGRWKy (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2003 18:10:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:25:48 +0200 From: "J.A. Magallon" To: Svein Ove Aas Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: BK is not heaven, sure [Was: Re: Bitkeeper] Message-ID: <20030718222548.GE3933@werewolf.able.es> References: <20030718210601.GA29771@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200307190000.41301.svein.ove@aas.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT In-Reply-To: <200307190000.41301.svein.ove@aas.no>; from svein.ove@aas.no on Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 00:00:37 +0200 X-Mailer: Balsa 2.0.12 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07.19, Svein Ove Aas wrote: [...] > > Summa summarum: > Having a Free CVS is good. > Having a useful BitKeeper is sometimes better. > Having a Free CVS with all the features of BK would be best. > Oh, please, stop thinking BitKeeper is the best thing since sliced bread !!! I have never used BK. I just use CVS as client. I have not looked at SVN. BK sure surpasses every other SCM tool. But please, stop thinking about BK clones, BK features, all BK. As I read in some posts in this thread, people is doing useful work on a free SCM. Could you all put your efforts on generating a list of features/requirements you would like for a SCM system specialized for kernel development, and send them to the developers, instead of arguing about legal impact of reverse-engineering BK. And let the developers think about protocols, work flow, ways to do things, and so on. They can find a way not even similiar to the BK one, and even better... That way perhaps in one year you could suck data from BK and at least try a new system... -- J.A. Magallon \ Software is like sex: werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586 Linux 2.4.22-pre6-jam1m (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-0.3mdk))