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I still insist that we use either Darcs or subversion. I think Darcs may be better, but <BR>
subversion is much more standard.<BR>
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A primary concern must be the each with which the average user, including the <BR>
non-LISP expert, can extract our work.<BR>
<BR>
We are not so large a project that we have to optimize our use of the source<BR>
control system; we should instead optimize the availability to users.<BR>
<BR>
In fact subversion is promptly better based on that argument.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
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On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 00:53 +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Scribit Ian Eslick dies 30/03/2007 hora 08:50:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I just took a peek at Mercurial - it's basically Darcs written in</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Python although with some C extensions.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Well, not quite. As some Debian developper said, as he switeched from</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Darcs to Mercurial, they don't have the same philsophy. Darcs will avoid</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">conflicts at all costs, thansk to the way it handles patches, whereas</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Mercurial will merely make resolving conflicts easy when it's not done</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">in completely automated way.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Not sure I like adding yet another source control to the Lisp</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> ecosystem (CVS, SVN, Darcs, etc). An ideal solution would be</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> cl-darcs, but it's not quite mature enough yet nor are there people</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> other than the author using/supporting it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Do you know if the algorithmic issues of Darcs are implementation</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">dependent? If not, cl-darcs will suffer the same problem that some</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">commits operate in unbounded time.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> I'm tempted to just use SVN for the next while, until there is a</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> proper cross-platform, distributed source control available</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Well, I didn't heard of any problems with Mercurial on Windows. It lacks</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">a TortoireHg, though, whereas there's a TortoiseDarcs and TortoiseSVN</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">already (though I only used the latter myself).</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Quickly,</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Pierre</FONT>
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