qtD
michaelc37
michaelc37 at msn.com
Mon Aug 12 12:34:16 PDT 2013
On Monday, 12 August 2013 at 19:08:14 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Monday, 12 August 2013 at 15:28:34 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>> https://code.google.com/p/qtd/ (which has a Subversion
>> repository)
>> clearly points to http://www.dsource.org/projects/qtd – which
>> I guess has a checkoutable (Subversion) repository.
>
> It's a Mercurial repository. QtD moved to BitBucket because of
> DSource stability problems impairing development. I suggested
> Eldar to nuke the DSource one to avoid confusion – i.e. either
> disable it, or replace it with a singe "repo has moved" text
> file in the root directory, or something like that –, but
> somehow this never happened (I don't recall whether there was
> actually disagreement about this or if we just never got around
> to do the change).
>
>>But then there is https://bitbucket.org/qtd/repo
>
> As far as I am aware, this is the "current" repository, i.e.
> the last that Eldar, Max, Alexey and I actually committed to.
> However, I don't think any of us are actually working on QtD
> right now, and even simple patches/pull requests take
> inexcusably long to merge.
>
>> and https://github.com/qtd-developers/qtd
>
> This seems to be an attempt to revive QtD, possibly by Michael
> Crompton, who contributed a few patches on BitBucket before.
> The URL is unnecessarily long, though – I just reserve
> github.com/qtd, if somebody wants admin rights for the
> organization, just drop me a line.
>
>> Before any activity gets going on QtD might it be an idea to
>> decide with
>> which VCS and support tools?
>
> Yep. I can't speak for Eldar and Max, who are really the ones
> who "own" QtD (I only contributed a few smaller fixes), but I'd
> say, if somebody wants to genuinely pick up QtD development,
> they should go ahead and choose whatever they feel most
> comfortable with. Git/GitHub certainly would be a good fit for
> the D ecosystem.
>
>> Perhaps more should be done on
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/qtd to
>> make it clear where action is to happen?
>
> I just tried to; the person behind the GitHub repository
> (Michael?) is welcome to amend that page. Note that the actual
> installation guides linked from that page all referred to the
> proper repository before as well.
>
> David
That github repo is not mine, and I assumed the current repo was
still on bitbucket. However, I agree moving to github would be
ideal.
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