From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: VCS comparison table Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:48:13 +0200 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <9e4733910610140807p633f5660q49dd2d2111c9f5fe@mail.gmail.com> <45349162.90001@op5.se> <453536AE.6060601@utoronto.ca> <200610172301.27101.jnareb@gmail.com> <45354AD0.1020107@utoronto.ca> <45355CBB.80108@utoronto.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: bazaar-ng@lists.canonical.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 19 01:48:46 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GaL9M-00088A-0s for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:48:40 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423153AbWJRXsh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:48:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423163AbWJRXsh (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:48:37 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:29083 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423153AbWJRXsg (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 19:48:36 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1GaL98-00085y-Sx for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:48:26 +0200 Received: from host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl ([81.190.17.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:48:26 +0200 Received: from jnareb by host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 19 Oct 2006 01:48:26 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: git@vger.kernel.org Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-81-190-17-207.torun.mm.pl Mail-Copies-To: jnareb@gmail.com User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Charles Duffy wrote: > Sean wrote: >> You'll need a better example than that. Git has supported a version >> of Cygwin-compatible symlink support on Windows for quite some time. >> And no plugins were needed. > > The win32-compatible symlink support is not, in and of itself, the point. > > The point is that core, pervasive functionality can be modified at > runtime, with no recompilation or installation of tools not included in > the bzr package itself, simply by dropping a directory into place. This > means that folks who don't have the skillset to merge three branches > together (say, upstream plus two different trees adding extra > functionality) and run a build can still install a few plugins to > enhance their copy of bzr (which was installed by their IT staff, or a > shiny click-through idiot-friendly Windows installer, etc). You don't need plugins for that. Take for example git-svn (perhaps not the best example, as it is Perl script; but Python although has compiled form is script language at heart), which went AFAIK from external contribution, to being in contrib/, to being in mainline (and in git-svn package). About plugins modifying some core functionality: this is rather sign of not attracting developers to do it in-core... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git