[cl-debian] Blatant Mercurial plug [was: yet another versioning change?]

[Alceste Scalas]

Il giorno mar, 08/08/2006 alle 11.30 +0200, Peter Van Eynde ha scritto:
> Sending your changes via email seems to be coming soon: 
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/SubmitByMail 
> 
> [...]
>
> I have also make a yet-untested 
> http://cl-debian.alioth.debian.org/repository/pvaneynd/bzr-moved/bzr-build.sh
> script. It uses a special commit message of UPSTREAM_sbcl_0.9.15.0 to act 
> as 'tag'. I expect bzr to gain tags soonish 
> (http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrTagging), but with this trick I can handle my 
> work-flow as is.

If you're going to do some tests, I'd suggest to try Mercurial:

  http://selenic.com/mercurial

I've used it for some time (with small source trees), without problems
and with a lot of pleasure.

Some goods:

  * it is fully supported by Tailor;

  * it supports tagging;

  * it supports sending and importing changeset via email;

  * it does scale.

About scaling: Mercurial was created as an alterative to Git for the
development of Linux, and their speed is almost the same (but Mercurial
is written in Python instead of C, and requires a lot less bandwidth and
disk space for transmitting and managing repositories).  It is currently
hosting the Linux source tree (see http://kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/ ) and
has been selected as the official distributes SCM system for
OpenSolaris.

Oh, it also offers a nice webserver/CGI for browsing the repositories,
generating RSS feeds for changelogs, and eventually push'ing changesets
through HTTP/HTTPS.

Regards,

alceste
-- 
Alceste Scalas <alceste at muvara.org>
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