Moving to D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"David Nadlinger" <see at klickverbot.at> wrote in message 
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> On 1/6/11 11:47 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Mercurial on dsource.org .
>
> Personally, I'd really like to persuade Walter, you, and whoever else 
> actually decides this to consider hosting the main repository at an 
> external place like GitHub or Mercurial, because DSource has been having 
> some real troubles with stability, although it got slightly better again 
> recently. The problem is somewhat alleviated when using a DVCS, but having 
> availabilities the main source repositories is not quite the best form of 
> advertisement for a language.
>
> Additionally, the UI of GitHub supports the scenario where only a few 
> people (or Walter alone) actually have commit/push access to the main 
> repository really well through cheap forks which stay logically connected 
> to he main repository and merge requests. The ability to make comments on 
> specific (lines in) commits, also in combination with pull requests, is 
> awesome as well.
>
> I would also like to suggest Git over Mercurial, though this is mostly 
> personal preference - it is used more widely, it has GitHub and Gitorious 
> (I'm having a hard time finding Bitbucket comparable personally), it's 
> proven to work well in settings where the main tree is managed by a single 
> person (->Linux), it tries not artificially restricting you as much as 
> possible (something I imagine Walter might like), . - but again, it's 
> probably a matter of taste, I don't want to start a flamewar here.
>

I've never used github, but I have used bitbucket and I truly, truly hate 
it. Horribly implemented site and an honest pain in the ass to use.