Hi, (Composed as UTF-8 mail with graphic characters) I have been trying to update debian reference. As a part of this effort, I made snapshot of popularity of packages.
One of the most interesting thing I noticed by doing this was change in popularity of VCS. (Just 1/2 year r so). When I started to track popcon data, CVS was used more than SVN. GIT was just had very minor portion of VCS user. Here are a summary of the version control system (VCS) on the Debian system now: Table 11.10. List of version control system tools. ┌──────────┬────────┬─────┬──────────┬───────────┬─────────────────────────────────┐ │ package │ popcon │size │ tool │ VCS type │ comment │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │cssc │V:0.01, │2168 │CSSC │local │Clone of the Unix SCCS │ │ │I:0.06 │ │ │ │(deprecated) │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │rcs │V:1.9, │756 │RCS │local │"Unix SCCS done right" │ │ │I:10 │ │ │ │ │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │cvs │V:5, │3624 │CVS │remote │The previous standard remote VCS │ │ │I:30 │ │ │ │ │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │subversion│V:9, │3456 │Subversion│remote │"CVS done right", the new de │ │ │I:26 │ │ │ │facto standard remote VCS │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │git-core │V:3, I:5│6712 │Git │distributed│fast DVCS in C (used by the Linux│ │ │ │ │ │ │kernel and others) │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │mercurial │V:0.6, │372 │Mercurial │distributed│DVCS with python and some C. │ │ │I:2 │ │ │ │ │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │darcs │V:0.3, │6168 │Darcs │distributed│DVCS with smart algebra of │ │ │I:1.8 │ │ │ │patches (slow). │ ├──────────┼────────┼─────┼──────────┼───────────┼─────────────────────────────────┤ │bzr │V:0.3, │15012│Bazaar │distributed│DVCS with python (used by the │ │ │I:1.8 │ │ │ │Ubuntu) │ └──────────┴────────┴─────┴──────────┴───────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘ V sands for vote (i.e. use) and I stands for install. Numbers are % of popcon votes. CVS is not as used as SVN these days. Within DVCS, GIT is 5-10 folds popular than other ones. So I can safely say that SVN is now the default VCS and GIT is getting very popular in use and have 1/3 of top SVN. (popcon data is diluted by old machines so I think GIT use is a lot.) See more on http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch11.en.html#listofversioncontrolsystemtools Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
