From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Kasperski Subject: Re: [VOTE] git versus mercurial (for DragonflyBSD) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:25:27 +0100 Message-ID: <878wrwom88.fsf@softax.com.pl> References: <200810272230.51683.arne_bab@web.de> <4907506C.8090609@op5.se> <200810282011.40647.arne_bab@web.de> <20081028193841.GA23637@neumann> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: mercurial@selenic.com X-From: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Thu Nov 06 17:32:09 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvmd-mercurial@gmane.org Received: from waste.org ([66.93.16.53] helo=mail.waste.org) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ky7m2-00058Y-3l for gcvmd-mercurial@gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:31:59 +0100 Received: from waste.org (staticwaste [66.93.16.53]) by mail.waste.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 750EE5C80BD; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:30:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by waste.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mA6GdxkM020714 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:40:01 -0600 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ky7ka-00043w-Et for mercurial@selenic.com; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:30:28 +0000 Received: from bozon2.n.softax.com.pl ([83.238.10.48]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:30:28 +0000 Received: from Marcin.Kasperski by bozon2.n.softax.com.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:30:28 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bozon2.n.softax.com.pl User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kthJ+aKQgR5fsRQSlmfKJjf0w7w= X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-BeenThere: mercurial@selenic.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Errors-To: mercurial-bounces@selenic.com Archived-At: >> > How many perl gurus have skipped writing >> > stuff for hg because it's a "python-or-bust" thing? >> >> How many Python people decided to write an extension for hg, because it can >> very nicely be accessed via Python? > > And wouldn't they contribute at all, if there would be hg bindings for > other programming languages, would they? Are really programming languages that important? If I find a tool which is useful and has features I need, and while using it I find some drawback, and I am able to find how could I work on it, I can pick up enough of the language it is written in. I am not a "guru" if I can't. Main showstoppers in this area are not the programming languages, but lack of documentation, miserable APIs, or lack of process. Or ... the fact that the tool is so good that it does not really need extensions. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Marcin Kasperski | If we are to be successful, we must still have | http://mekk.waw.pl | the courage to put our faith in people as | | opposed to a process. (Booch,Martin,Newkirk) ----------------------------------------------------------------------