[slime-devel] Re: Mercurial

[Helmut Eller]

* Didier Verna [2008-03-04 16:49+0100] writes:

> Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> wrote:
>
>> What do people think of switching from CVS to Mercurial[*] ?
>
>   In XEmacs, we recently switched development from CVS to mercurial. The
> choice pretty quickly boiled down to hg or git. I think mercurial is a
> bit simpler to use (it has fewer commands, but extension infrastructure
> if needed) and much more documented. Otherwise, they're quite equivalent
> in functionality. I can't remember exactly the final motivations for the
> decision, but if anyone is interested, I can dig into the review board
> list's archives.

Some other big projects are also using hg.  Both, git and hg should
easily handle SLIME.  I would prefer hg, but the main question is:
should we switch at all?

Helmut.