On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 06:43:19PM +0100, Bernd Zeimetz wrote: >> Monty Taylor wrote: >> > /me whinges that switching to bzr for packaging in general would be a >> > much nicer thing overall, since then ubuntu downstream is pretty well >> > bzr... > >> unfortunatelt I don't know why they use bzr > > Because bzr was developed in conjunction with Ubuntu? :) (This might mean > Ubuntu is somewhat biased in favor of bzr; OTOH, it also means that bzr > developers are responsive to the needs of Ubuntu developers.) > >> as it is really ugly to use > > Ugly how? > >> (that's just my subjective opinion, please don't start a flame war now....) > > It's a rather strongly worded opinion; if you want to avoid flame wars, you > might find it helpful to bring specific criticisms to the table instead of > just declaring a solution "ugly". :)
Well, it's just slow ---- once you get used to git and how fast it is, it really sucks to wait for basic operations like "bzr di". See e.g. my comparison here: http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-August/021009.html But as Bernd said, let's not start a flamewar about this. But I think it's useful to see what all the debian-python developers think. As I told Matthias offlist, we should only switch to git if most of developers are fine with that. Yeah, but since we are talking about that --- Steve, do you really think that bzr has any future? I know that Ubuntu is using it a lot, and couple other projects (mostly hosted on Launchpad), but that's about it. Git, on the other hand, is used a lot in Debian, and in a lot of other projects. Also you have many places on the internet to store your repository (github, gitorious, git.debian.org, ...). As to mercurial ---- Tristan, I don't know if you actually ever used hg-buildpackage, but it is written in Haskell (!) and see my blog post here: http://ondrejcertik.blogspot.com/2007/10/mercurial-vs-git-for-managing-debian.html it's not really well polished (well, of course, because not a lot of people are using it, compared to git-buildpackage). Anyway, besides stating which vcs one likes, this is mostly a debate over a beer in Prague, but well, why not, I just had several of them. Ondrej -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-python-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
