From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 12:13:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C3591065693 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:13:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (agora.rdrop.com [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467648FC14 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id o8KCD848083965 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.9/Submit) with UUCP id o8KCD8xG083964; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:13:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fbsd61 by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA02059; Mon, 20 Sep 10 05:10:28 PDT Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:20:39 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: annulen@yandex.ru, jhell@dataix.net Message-Id: <4c975197.1fY0dTyqrEwwwGi5%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <4C91446F.3090202@bsdforen.de> <20100916171744.GA48415@hades.panopticon> <4C927ED0.5050307@bsdforen.de> <86zkvhfhaa.fsf@gmail.com> <4C92C14D.3010005@FreeBSD.org> <4C92F195.5000605@FreeBSD.org> <4C93A107.4070809@DataIX.net> <4c93f602.pzTXVEQ+3q2cRA23%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4C94617B.3080702@bsdforen.de> <20100918141727.22a81b66@it.buh.tecnik93.com> <4C95AFE4.30608@DataIX.net> <174981284967033@web24.yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <174981284967033@web24.yandex.ru> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Distributed Version Control for ports(7) ( was: Re: autoconf update ) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:13:12 -0000 Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > Why not Git? One issue with either Git or Mercurial is that they are GPL. AFAIK FreeBSD prefers to avoid GPL in the base or in critical widely-used infrastructure if a viable non-GPL alternative exists. Granted SVN, currently used to manage src, is GPL; but its critical use is only on the project's own servers whereas the use being proposed for Git or Mercurial would involve their being used in a distributed manner (that being the whole point). A second issue with Mercurial is that it is written in Python, which seems to have adopted -- granted to a lesser extent -- the unfortunate Perl tendency for newer versions to be less than completely compatible with earlier versions. It would seem problematic if the Python version used by Mercurial were to be superseeded by an incompatible version, requiring the entire distributed user base to migrate.