[tex-live] svn vs. p4

Giuseppe Bilotta bilotta78 at hotpop.com
Sat May 20 21:24:52 CEST 2006


On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:38:43 +0200, Gerben Wierda wrote:

> On 27 Apr 2006, at 06:46, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
> 
>> And again, what do others think?
> 
> My personal feeling is that as long as fully free tools are not as  
> good as p4, we should stick with p4. That is purely pragmatic.

Sorry for butting in out of nowehre in this oldish discussion: if
TeXlive is considering switching away from p4 to something else, I'd
like to suggest, among the alternatives to be taken into
consideration, mercurial (hg)
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi

There is some info on how to transition from BitKeeper to Hg here
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/readmes/hg-cheatsheet.txt
Some of it might apply to p4 -> hg too.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

"I'm never quite so stupid
 as when I'm being smart" --Linus van Pelt



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