Bzr development stopped WAS Re: Branching from just a part of

[Chris Hecker]

I'm on this boat.  I really like bzr versus hg and git, and think a
bunch of the decisions are the right ones, but was assuming it'd keep on
being actively developed.  It would be a shame if it ends up dying.

I've actually thought about funding development of some of the features
I want (large binaries, partial checkouts, etc.) if my current project
goes well financially.  Hopefully bzr'll still be around when/if that
happens!

Chris



On 2012/09/11 18:51, Talden wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 2:35 AM, Matthew D. Fuller
> <fullermd at over-yonder.net> wrote:
>> As Stefan said elsewhere in the thread,
>>
>>    > I'm beginning to feel a bit like in the bad CVS days where you
>>    > just had to get used to circumventing its limitations, for lack
>>    > of actual development.
>>
>> which is really a place I don't want to return to with a tool I use
>> all day.  I can't lay any sort of claim to have surveyed the entire
>> VCS space, but I have fiddled with the major ones.  And compared to
>> bzr, they were all rather unpleasant, which is why I'm here.
>>
>> The choice between a tool that's pleasant and has a good chance of
>> eventually growing the pieces I miss, and one that's unpleasant and
>> has a good chance of eventually growing the pieces I miss, is very
>> very easy.  But when the pleasant choice winds up with a very poor
>> chance of eventually growing those pieces, it's a much harder position
>> to stake out.
>>
>> As the project stands, a bzr with no ongoing Canonical push for active
>> development is a bzr with no active development.  And that's just
>> another way of saying "hey, if this doesn't isn't already Practically
>> Perfect In Every Way for you and your problem space, better git to
>> love git, buddy".  That's...   not the future I would have chosen for
>> myself   :(
> 
> What he said.
> 
> Bazaar was approaching what I wanted from a DVCS and headed in the
> right direction and I don't feel that way about either of Mercurial or
> Git.
> 
> But it hasn't reached where it needed to be (in terms of function,
> usage, packaging and adoption/integration) for me to adopt in the
> major places I need a VCS solution and it's such a shame to see it
> lose some of the momentum it's had...
> 
> --
> Talden
> 
>