Re: [Monotone-devel] projects using monotone?

[Zbynek Winkler]

Emile Snyder wrote:

> I also wouldn't mind notes from people that have tried to migrate to
> monotone but discovered they were unable to for some reason.  What were
> the deal breakers?
>  
Some time ago we examined the possibility of integrating monotone to 
gforge (we have a small testing installation in our school about to get 
some school projects once it is ready) and there were several problems:

1) push performace 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2005-06/msg00096.html - 
there was a patch to improve that but I haven't tried yet because

2) compilation time 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2005-06/msg00136.html - 
this has improved mainly with gcc4.0 to the point that I am able to 
compile from source but it is still a major pain in the ... because any 
fixes I could try (or develop myself) take just to much time :(

3) one database per project 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2005-06/msg00090.html - 
this seems to be possible now with the usher thing but I haven't tried 
that either yet

4) long time for incomming revisions verification - this is supposed to 
get better with the rosters code

5) dumb server support - server without monotone - 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2004-01/msg00040.html - 
this seems to be possible with net.venge.monotone.dumb 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/monotone-devel/2005-09/msg00220.html; 
it is not there yet but it is a start :)

As you can see, all of my 'deal breakers' are being addressed so I see a 
brighter future now :-). However I do not have any project using 
monotone as a primary SCM.

Zbynek

--
http://zw.matfyz.cz/     http://robotika.cz/
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic