Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?

[Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 22:47 -0800, Ryan Phillips wrote:

> We need to pick one VCS and only one.  Having multiple systems
> requires users to install multiple applications and learn each one.
> Not all of them are easy to pick up.  Plus, it would be nice to be
> able to merge from the overlays to the Portage trunk.

I'm not sure it is realistic at the moment to pick just one DVCS. Apart
from getting one that works on all systems, it's likely to be hard to
get everyone to agree.

There's a slight danger that the discussion of which VCS could distract
us from the important questions.

If we're going with the idea that at least at first these overlay are
going to be run by and for projects/teams/herds then perhaps the choice
of VCS is not so important. So long as it's feasible with infra of
course. Since we don't yet expect people to be using several of these
overlays at once it's probably that each developer or outside
contributer would not need to use more than one VCS (in addition to cvs
for portage).

As a plus side, this might give us some feedback on which (D)VCSs work
well for overlay development and might help inform our future decisions
on possible cvs replacements.

BTW I hope that with all my recent emails on the issue of which
arches/platforms can run darcs I've not been giving the impression that
I'm pushing for darcs to be the "one true" choice. I am certainly
interested in working with any arch team to get ghc and darcs ported but
that's a separate issue.

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Duncan Coutts : Gentoo Developer (Haskell herd team lead)
email         : dcoutts at gentoo dot org

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