On Mon, 20 Sep 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. > AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical > widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative > exists.
The project currently uses Perforce for many sub-projects, so using GPL licenced solution could hardly be a problem. I was shocked to notice that I need a proprietary binary-only software which does whatever unbeknownst to me to be able to access the TrustedBSD repositories. Using some free modern VCS for new sub-projects which would traditionally go to perforce would be a good way and first-use candidate to start experimenting with and getting developers used to the slightly different new way of doing things. >From my point of view as a *user* it would be very nice to have some modern VCS interface to ports and src. The current system (SVN & CVS) makes it troublesome for users to keep in sync with the central repository while maintaining their local modifications. Also, if I want to be able to access port version history easily, I need to use anoncvs to update my ports tree, but that is terribly slow (or I could mirror the whole CVS repository to my disk, but that is quite a bloat). Luckily src has been migrated to SVN, which makes my life slightly easier. The above is just a point of view as a pure consumer of the source tree. My contributions to the project come as patches in PRs (it would be easier to work on those patches with a modern VCS). My personal favourite is Bazaar as it tracks not only files but also directories properly, which I need for some projects, Mercurial comes 2nd and Git 3rd as it is quite a mess. All of them are tolerable :). I do know that the migration is a big burden which makes the whole thing very difficult to accomplish. -- Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications sn...@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
