Am 27.08.14 09:50, schrieb Frank Millman:
This is quite a timely message for me. I am inching closer to releasing a
version of my accounting software, and a lot of the above comments apply to
me as well. At present I am the only developer, and my project is not hosted
anywhere, so I have to decide how to make it available, and I am open to
suggestions.
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I could stick to hg (or git) but I have recently come across fossil, and it
seems ideal for my needs. Has anyone used it? It seems to have everything it
needs (a wiki and a ticketing system) for self-hosting, and I have my own
domain that I have not activated yet, so maybe I should just use fossil and
host it myself. Any comments?
Fossil is indeed an impressive piece. It comes from Richard Hipp, the
guy behind SQLite, and it's currently in use to manage the Tcl/Tk
sources. If you want to do the hosting yourself, it can be a good choice.
I myself decided not to use it, but instead use git with github. The
reasons:
- github offers much more than plain git; you can host a website in the
repo, included is a (rudimentary) templating engine, which allows to
write your docs in simple markdown [*]
- the github frontpage makes it easier to download a tarball of the
project. In the fossil website it's quite hard to find
- github gives the server storage for free to open source projects
- there is a "social network" - anybody who wants to contribute, can
send you pull requests via github
- For large projects, git is much faster than fossil to update the repo.
The good news: you can migrate from fossil to git; e.g. the tcl/tk repos
are mirrored to github. For fossil, there is also public storage space
e.g. on chiselapp.com as an alternative
Christian
[*] in case you are curious, this is the website of my repo:
http://auriocus.github.io/VecTcl/
The content is all done in markdown, including math and syntax
highlighting, and the template was adopted from one of the designs
offered from github
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