dist-hg proof-of-concept ready for use

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Wed Nov 8 18:05:34 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:22, Andrew Overholt wrote:
> This plan basically goes out the window if we move to something other
> than CVS or SVN because there either isn't a plugin at all or isn't a
> mature plugin for the other VC systems being considered.  This is not to
> say that it won't change in the future, but as of now, the only things
> we can support are CVS (part of the Eclipse SDK) and SVN
> (eclipse-subclipse in Extras).
>
> I know a final decision has yet to be made, but please take Eclipse
> support into consideration.
>
> I'm obviously not asking everyone to use Eclipse for their Fedora
> package work, but I'm hoping to make it so nice that at least some
> people will *want* to do so :)

Wouldn't having a major distributions workflow involve something like git or 
hg add motivation to create Eclipse plugins for these SCMs?  Many upstream 
projects are transitioning to either git, or hg because of the 
distributedness of it, something you can't get from CVS or SVN.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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