Comments on: Deciding on a DVCS

By: Stoffe

Stoffe — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:32:11 +0000

Here’s a better quote from three weeks ago or so (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/89117/):

“Bzr is now a GNU package, though it has not been updated to reflect that. It is most unlikely that git or Mercurial will be GNU packages. Thus, unless Bzr is unsuitable, we should use Bzr.

We’ve seen enough to know that each has its advantages but all are workable. So we should use Bzr. And if there are aspects of it which prove inconvenient, we can ask the Maintainer of Bzr to improve them.”

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 10:36:43 +0000

Thanks for the clarification – not being a mutt user, I hadn’t heard that type of expression in relation to it.

By: ovitters

ovitters — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:51:41 +0000

From http://www.mutt.org: “All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less”. IMO Bzr comes closest (finally good usability!). However, Elijah is pointing out some drawbacks with Bzr as well. I’m still learning though.

By: James Henstridge

James Henstridge — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:34:50 +0000

What do you mean by “and I haven’t seen a Mutt version”?

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:47:46 +0000

RMS does use things like this as a tiebreaker, and it makes a certain amount of sense, because “becoming a GNU project” basically means “will treat GNU as the top-priority customer”.