[Vm-dev] a Cog branch

laurent laffont laurent.laffont at gmail.com
Fri Jun 25 06:05:37 UTC 2010


On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:03 AM, keith <keith_hodges at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
> Bazaar is better than mercurial, one of the launchpad team is a squeaker.
>
> Launchpad is better than github.
>

I have never used bazaar, but Launchpad looks great.
https://launchpad.net/+tour/index

Ubuntu integration + translation + API are worthwhile

Laurent



>
> Keith
>
>
> On 25 Jun 2010, at 02:26, Josh Gargus wrote:
>
>
>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Igor Stasenko wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Does Mercurial provides an infrastructure like github?
>>>
>>
>> Google Code hosting supports Mercurial. I'm not sure specifically what
>> infrastructure you're talking about; does Google Code meet your needs?
>>
>>
>>  I mean, if it doesn't , then it is nothing better than svn (the fact
>>> that i could have a full copy
>>> of repository locally doesn't much matters).
>>> I really don't care what version control system used as a backend, i
>>> care about infrastructure around it.
>>> On a github its ultimately easy to get started and make own fork(s) of
>>> existing projects,
>>>
>>
>> Not sure how well Google Code meets that need.  Anyone?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Josh
>>
>>
>>
>>  and moreover, all such things are tracked, not just sources.
>>> So, users could see how much forks there, and could navigate through
>>> them etc etc.
>>> The fancy & clever diff/merge etc things is cool, but used seldom,
>>> because 99% of times you just doing
>>> edit/commit.
>>>
>>> On 25 June 2010 02:46, Josh Gargus <josh at schwa.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> +1 Mercurial, -1 Git.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Josh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:43 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Eliot, how about using github for it?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think that's great for the whole Squeak VM not just Cog.  I'm not
>>>> doing this now because I think Cog should live with the rest of the Squeak
>>>> VM.  Let's start a separate discussion on whether we should move
>>>> http://squeakvm.org/svn/squeak to github, or at least to git with a
>>>> home on machines we control..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It would be much convenient for use, since it supports branching and
>>>>> no need for someone to be added to 'official' list of contributors in
>>>>> order to push own
>>>>> patches.
>>>>> Anyone could make own fork at any time, and at any time, a core
>>>>> developer could backport the changes
>>>>> into official repository.
>>>>> I think github model is very good for community development. Then i,
>>>>> for instance, could
>>>>> push my own changes into my branch, and it will be easy to track,
>>>>> exchange and port the code between
>>>>> forks and official repository.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Agreed.  Git and/or Mercurial is much better than svn.
>>>> best
>>>> Eliot
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 23 June 2010 21:48, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>>   I need to be able to push fixes to Cog into general circulation and
>>>>>> for this I'd like to maintain a Cog branch in the Subversion tree.  But how
>>>>>> do I get permission and/or credentials?  What's the process to add me to
>>>>>> those allowed to write to the repository? Or is there simply a secret
>>>>>> username and password that's told to a few?  If the later can some kind soul
>>>>>> let me have the password.  I faithfully promise not to abuse the privilege.
>>>>>> best
>>>>>> Eliot
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Igor Stasenko AKA sig.
>>>
>>
>>
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