[gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[Caleb Tennis]

Hi,

It seems like all source control/revision control programs live in dev-util, but
they might be better served in something like dev-scm or something like that.  I'm
thinking things like darcs, git, cvs, svn, mercurial, bzr.  Then the slew of
packages that depend on them: gitosis, bzrtools.

Any objections to this potential move, or comments on a better category name?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[Ciaran McCreesh]

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On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:52:16 -0500 (EST)
"Caleb Tennis" <caleb@gentoo.org> wrote:
> It seems like all source control/revision control programs live in
> dev-util, but they might be better served in something like dev-scm
> or something like that.  I'm thinking things like darcs, git, cvs,
> svn, mercurial, bzr.  Then the slew of packages that depend on them:
> gitosis, bzrtools.
> 
> Any objections to this potential move, or comments on a better
> category name?

You might want to ask Seemant (?) why he didn't do the move several
years back. There were plans to do it, but it never happened for some
reason -- not sure whether it was just a time issue or whether there
was something in particular that made it impossible.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[Rémi Cardona]

Caleb Tennis a écrit :
> Any objections to this potential move, or comments on a better category name?

No objections. Just wondering about tools like gitweb, will they stay in 
web-apps?

Rémi
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[Marius Mauch]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:57:39 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 12:52:16 -0500 (EST)
> "Caleb Tennis" <caleb@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > It seems like all source control/revision control programs live in
> > dev-util, but they might be better served in something like dev-scm
> > or something like that.  I'm thinking things like darcs, git, cvs,
> > svn, mercurial, bzr.  Then the slew of packages that depend on them:
> > gitosis, bzrtools.
> > 
> > Any objections to this potential move, or comments on a better
> > category name?
> 
> You might want to ask Seemant (?) why he didn't do the move several
> years back. There were plans to do it, but it never happened for some
> reason -- not sure whether it was just a time issue or whether there
> was something in particular that made it impossible.

IIRC it was because you argued that cvs didn't qualify
as a VCS (as the proposed category name back then was app-vcs)

Marius
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[Markus Hauschild]

On Feb 1, 2008 11:34 PM, Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>
> IIRC it was because you argued that cvs didn't qualify
> as a VCS (as the proposed category name back then was app-vcs)
>

I dont see why cvs is not a vcs like the others but ok.

But I'm all in for a dev-scm (or similar) category.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[David Shakaryan]

Markus Hauschild wrote:
> On Feb 1, 2008 11:34 PM, Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> IIRC it was because you argued that cvs didn't qualify
>> as a VCS (as the proposed category name back then was app-vcs)
>>
> 
> I dont see why cvs is not a vcs like the others but ok.

The first sentence on the CVS site[1] begins with "CVS is a version
control system".

[1] http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Move SCMs to their own category?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Caleb Tennis wrote:

> It seems like all source control/revision control programs live in
> dev-util, but they might be better served in something like dev-scm
> or something like that. [...]

> Any objections to this potential move, or comments on a better
> category name?

"dev-scm" can be easily confused with "dev-scheme", so I would prefer
the name "dev-vcs" or "dev-vc" for the new category.

Ulrich
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