Hi, On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 10:18, Ludovic Courtès <l...@gnu.org> wrote: > EuAndreh <e...@euandre.org> skribis:
> > Guix channel authors may want to serve channels: [...] > > - via other DVCS like Mercurial, Fossil, BitKeeper; > > - decoupled from the backing versioning tool. [...] > All in all, I’m not in favor of supporting other version control tools > for channels. Adding more all to "all in all". :-) Support other VCS would mean a lot of work: refactor "pull" and then break several CLIs (pull, time-machine, describe) -- without speaking about "guix git" subcommand. I do not know if all the Git concepts currently used by Guix translate well to other VCS. Moreover the transparent recent fallback to SWH for channels would also needs piece of work -- it is not straightforward to fetch back content from metadata at hand; it is currently only done for Git source and the others VCS are still WIP, i.e., they do not work out-of-the-box. Well, from a pragmatic point of view, I am not convinced that such effort is worth considering the popularity of Git vs other-VCS. All the best, simon
