[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553

[Lars Tandle Kyllingstad]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:21 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
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> ----- Original Message ----
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> > It's great to have so many people contribute to Phobos, 
> > but I've never had such a long streak of non-builds. It looks like new scale of 
> > contribution asks for corresponding responsibility. Please, make sure everything 
> > builds before checking in, and announce to this list if you broke the build and 
> > are unable to fix it without help.
> 
> I understand your frustration, but it might be unreasonable to ask people to ensure a build occurs properly on all OSes before checking in, this might not be practical (disclaimer: I haven't tried building the latest, maybe the build doesn't work anywhere :)
> 
> Another option is to use branches and merging, but dsource's SVN server is very outdated, and doesn't support the better merging capability that the latest version does.


May I suggest that we switch to a different revision control system?
Besides the fact that dsource uses an ancient SVN server, I've really
grown to dislike the whole concept of a centralised model for revision
control.

For personal uses I've switched to git, and I'd like to ask you to
consider the same for Phobos.  If you're not familiar with it, here's a
presentation by Linus Torvalds, who invented it:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

I think he has some good points which also apply to Phobos. (Granted, as
is his usual style, he is very unforgiving towards people who disagree
with him.  It makes for an entertaining talk, though.)

-Lars