On Wednesday 8 August 2007 08:27, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Why did you choose SVN? It's not any better than CVS, it has the same > lacks, like not being able to manage unix rights, which is really the > basic. Why don't you upgrade to Git or Mercurial which are REALLY a LOT > better?
Not wanting to get into such a religious discussion, I do think I can correct two things here: saying it's "not any better than CVS" is untrue, because SVN is (apart from a few details) a feature superset of CVS. It's strictly better, it does what CVS does and it does more (better branching, global revision numbers, file renaming/copying, ...). It manages UNIX rights not in detail but you can set files executable, which I think is the major usecase for UNIX rights in packaging. I'm not sure what other rights you'd need when packaging something, as everything will be reset in the .diff anyway. > > I plan to improve "Requirements for PHP PEAR libraries"[*] to > > have a common policy for all PHP PEAR modules (common packaging, > > short/long description, procedures to request a new PHP PEAR > > module package or updating) in order to facilitate team > > maintainance and have high-quality and uptodate PHP PEAR > > packages. > > > > [*] > > http://webapps-common.alioth.debian.org/draft-php/html/ch-php-libs.html#s > >-php-libs-pear > > This is a VERY good idea, and I think it will help a lot to improve the > pear package. Thanks for writing this. I currently maintain some PEAR packages and would be interested in joining such a group. Can you add me to the Alioth group please? My login is 'thijs'. Thanks, Thijs
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