Re: Dia on git.gnome.org (experimental repository)

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On 01/18/2009 09:39 AM, Sandy Armstrong wrote:
> > In an earlier post Owen was mentioning a lot of "angst" [1] regarding the
> > switch from SVN to git, unfortunately I share that angst.
> >
> > In the list of possible (distributed) version control systems from my
> > limited experience git is the one, which cares less for portability (fair
> > enough for being the Linux kernel version control system).
> >
> > But for gnome.org where a lot of projects actually do care for portability
> > I think there should be official vcs support at least for major platforms
> > we care about. And some usable gui integration would be nice, too [2].
>
> I think everybody needs to take this very seriously.  It may be that
> Hans just has the wrong version of git installed, I don't know.  But
> without straightforward installers and GUI tools like TortoiseSVN, we
> are really pushing away the Windows developer community (Mac, too?).
> Maybe this isn't a big deal to most of GNOME, but I know it will have a
> negative impact on my modules (Tomboy, Tasque).
>
> I'm not trying to convince you that this is a blocker, or anything.  But
> if we do go ahead with a git migration, let's not pretend that it is an
> improvement on the Windows/Mac side.

In retrospect, this part of my post is not really appropriate for this 
mailing list.  If people want to discuss it, let's move it somewhere 
else like desktop-devel-list.  Otherwise, I'm sorry for straying off 
topic.  :-)

Sandy