Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed *notrademarkhere* clone

Jeff Garzik
2003-03-03T02:22:38Z

nickn wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:12:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>My counter-question is, why not improve an _existing_ open source SCM to
>>read and write BitKeeper files? Why do we need yet another brand new
>>project?
>
>
> Or improve BK to export and import on demand of an existing open source SCM.

That may be possible with OpenCM, but it's a bit of a stretch for the
other existing SCMs. Regardless, if BK can export metadata to an open
format (such as a defined XML spec), then the SCM interchange
possibilities are only limited by a programmer's time and imagination.

Jeff