dist-hg proof-of-concept ready for use

[Andrew Overholt]

On Wed, 2006-08-11 at 13:05 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> 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?

Perhaps.  Our group doesn't have the time or peoplepower to do this,
though.  Perhaps the various attempts at writing these plugins will pan
out.

> 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.

I don't personally see the need for the distributedness when it comes to
Fedora packaging stuff.  But perhaps I'm missing something.

Andrew
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