Re: [Savannah-hackers] Fighting BitKeeper: There is no such thing as a Free Lunch

[Rudy Gevaert]

Shlomi Fish wrote:
> I think you erroneously believed that "use only free software" idealism is
> shared by all free software developers out there. That is far from being
> the case. It is not the case for me and it is not the case for most of the
> FS developers I personally know. I know a few free software bigots but at
> least one is also using BitKeeper.

What people do is their bussiness.  We can not force people to use no 
free software.

> I see my battle as a way to get a truly comfortable, and nice SCM into the
> open. BitKeeper is that, but it is too restrictive. Subversion is that
> too, but it has no public hosting. CVS is not that. It is a pain to work
> with: you cannot copy files, you cannot move or rename them, merging is a
> pain, commits are non-atomic, etc.

Well if you see it as your battle please help to make subversion more 
stable so it can get into the Debian stable distribution.

The must understand that we do not have infinite spare time to spend 
recompilling stuff from source every time a patch has been posted.

> Some Savannah users are just looking for hosting for thier projects and
> don't care too much about ideals. And some (like me) will greatly
> appreciate something better than CVS.

As I said before, that is their problem.  We can only see to it that 
savannah is using only free software. [imho that is also stable]

Rudy


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