On 14.09.09 20:02, Gary Poster wrote:
On Sep 11, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Chris Withers wrote:
Martijn Faassen wrote:
Christian Theune wrote: [snip]
Same here. We also ended up in many deadlock situations having to sacrifice chickens for SVN to resume operations. That's why we started investigating alternatives which are better at branching and merging.
Please keep up posted. We have a standing offer from Canonical to host our stuff in bzr. The move of the Python core developers to mercurial is also interesting.
I've been impressed with TortoiseHg so far (after a few initial hiccups) and it looks like they're aiming to be cross platform with it, which is a pretty big draw, although the MacOS port isn't ready yet...
How has TortoiseBzr progressed?
My understanding is that TortoiseBzr has largely withered on the vine in favor of a new effort: BzrExplorer, based on Qt, and running on Linux/Windows/Mac.
http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrExplorer
That page has links to lots of information. The very little information I have is based on those pages, so, for now, please look there for now rather than asking me anything.
Once Bzr 2.0 comes out (in less than a month AIUI), I'll at least send out a link to it and point out some changes made that specifically address concerns raised by Zope Foundation members when I raised Launchpad's/Canonical's offer before. If there are any questions then, I'll be happy to try to get answers. One personal aspect I would like to throw into the discussion:
Although it is possible to use hg/bzr/svn in parallel within a project and a buildout, I am completely against having a mixture of SVN+HG or SVN+BZR within a Plone project (where Zope stuff is coming from BZR or HG) and the Plone stuff from SVN..if we want/need to switch away from SVN then all other related projects should switch as well. Andreas