FYI: Emacs develelopment team considers bzr

James Westby jw+debian at jameswestby.net
Wed Mar 5 23:38:43 GMT 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 22:35 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> To all who are interestested:
> 
>     <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg01212.html>
> 
>     Subject: Re: Bzr on Savannah
>     Date: 2 weeks, 5 days, 20 hours -- 2008-02-15 02:03 EET
>     Message-ID: <E1JPo2z-0002Cs-0s at fencepost.gnu.org>
> 
>     RMS Speaketh:
> 
>     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.
>     ...
> 
> Performance seems to be number one issue the devel team is worried
> about for the size of Emacs project.

I also saw that they were worried about line endings as well, though
I presume that everyone will be working in emacs, which I assume
has sensible line ending support.

Thanks,

James





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