FYI: Emacs develelopment team considers bzr

[Jari Aalto]

* Wed 2008-03-05 James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net>
* Message-Id: 1204760323.6388.5.camel at flash
> 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.

The line ending issue is really *killer* *request* among many projects
that I've seen to evaluate bzr.

It would be very beneficial to to put develoment effort it, because
SVN converts would *love* to have easy transition to bzr.

Jari

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