Am Freitag, den 04.12.2009, 13:34 -0800 schrieb David Miller: > From: Robert Millan <r...@aybabtu.com> > Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 21:58:25 +0100 > > > On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 01:03:09PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > >> > >> Thanks, but I don't feel comfortable enough with bzr yet. > >> > >> I had to struggle just to get things checked out, as the bzr > >> package in Debian stable is too old to use to access to repo. > >> > >> (For the record I disagree with the source control system choosen, > >> and the fact that a common current Linux distribution doesn't even > >> provide a version of the tool necessary to access the repo really > >> convinces me further of that.) > > > > For a Lenny system the following should do the trick: > > > > echo "deb http://backports.org/debian lenny-backports main" | sudo > tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list > > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 16BA136C > > gpg --export -a 16BA136C | sudo apt-key add - > > sudo apt-get update > > sudo apt-get install -t lenny-backports bzr > > That's not a straightforward and low barrier of entry for new > developers who want to simply check out the grub code and start > contributing. That's my point. > > Do you want lots of people involved, or do you want people to have > to jump through hoops and go out of their way to get at your tree? > > Heck, for this reason alone, subversion was a better situation.
When squeeze is out we hopefully won't have that problem again that we have to use newer versions then Debian stable. I hope that the bzr repository formats are now enough stable for our use. > Mercurial, GIT, or pretty any other distributed source control system > would have worked out of the box with the client versions provided in > debian stable and other distributions. > > So, I still believe BZR was a bad choice of a source control system. > > And how many times have you guys wrecked your repository already? > :-) IIRC 3 times, but 2 times was because of the broken bzr-svn used to sync regulary SVN to Bazaar trunk. -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
