But why? On 03 Nov 2013, at 15:52, Stephan Eggermont <step...@stack.nl> wrote:
> Kilon wrote >> I take a look at previous experiments like squeaksource and I find little >> justification to not support Github. But then I am not against Smalltalkhub >> or other >repos being available to Pharo. The more the merrier. > > I see some very strong arguments against depending on github: > - it is centralized infrastructure, essentially unsuitable for use with a > distributed version control system; It’s now. Git is decentralised. And Guthub helps to use that even more with forks, pull requests, etc. > - it doesn’t support working at the right granularity; I don’t get the point. > - the smalltalk community is too small to have any influence on the > directions github is taking. true > It is a commercial organization that can decide to do something we don’t > like at any time. > It is free, so we are the product. Just take a look at sourceforge; > - we can do much better than github (but don’t have enough time). We should > be using a P2P, > bittorrent like system for version control. I think we should think about that. Monticello bothers me a lot. You have a lot of duplications, no safety for previous versions, etc. I don’t like an idea of snapshots. Storing changes looks much better to me. > > > Stephan > > > Uko
