[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1553

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

I'd vote one up for git, but it won't fix the builds for us.

Andrei

On 05/25/2010 09:30 AM, Lars Tandle Kyllingstad wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:21 -0700, Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> [snip]
>>
>>> 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 Another option is to use branches and merging, but dsource's SVN server is very outdated, and doesn't support the better merging capability that the latest version does.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
>
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