Git, the D package manager

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, 2015-02-03 at 20:18 +0000, Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Don't forget tup!!! [1]
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> [1] http://gittup.org/tup/

You are quite right to point out I had missed that. I haven't had time 
to use it properly as yet, but I am following development. I really 
should Just Use It™

Whilst we are raising missing things, there are two historical things 
that would be worth at least looking at because they had things to 
contribute that appear to have been lost (*).

Aegis was (actually still is, but…) a distributed configuration 
management system which could be used for source code version control 
or dependency management. It could have taken the world by storm, but 
everyone decided Subversion was The Thing™ 
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/

Vesta was (still is, but only sort of) a configuration management 
system which managed source and compilation products on a global 
scale. Compile stuff at one site and source and compilation product 
becomes available globally to anyone who wants it. 
http://vesta.sourceforge.net/

Whilst talking this sort of thing I should perhaps mention Fossil, 
which makes Git look awkward. In a sense it is sad that the world 
assumes that if it is FOSS it is on GitHub. Especially if you are 
Atlassian and you bought BitBucket.


(*) At least temporarily in the way that actors, dataflow, CSP got 
totally lost in 1990s and 2000s.

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