fedora considering hg

[Rafael Villar Burke]

El lun, 13-11-2006 a las 08:42 -0500, Neal Becker escribió:
> There is a discussion on the fedora list:
> <fedora-maintainers at redhat.com>
> 
> regarding moving release management to hg or perhaps git.  If anyone would
> like to contribute to that discussion.
> 
> Here is the original message:
> 
> I've spent some time creating a proof-of-concept of dist-hg, that is the 
> Extras package source controll converted from CVS to mercurial.  It is now 
> ready for some testing other than myself.  Getting packages out, making and 
> committing changes, tagging, and building all are functional.
> 
> If you'd like to test it out, please see 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/VersionControl/dist-hg

In the cons list for Mercurial, there's a mention to the lack of support
for it in Eclipse. You should have a look to
http://www.vectrace.com/mercurialeclipse/
I haven't used it and don't know whether it's working fine or not, but
at least it looks like a feasible solution.

Also, I'd point that speed should be listed as a pro as in the git case,
as both have comparable performance.

Some upstream projects use Mercurial too, as Xen, ALSA...

Regards,

Rafael Villar Burke
www.rvburke.com