Squeak VM SVN mirrored

 
Hi!

So I have managed to get through step 1 regarding experimenting with
distributed SCM tools and the VM sources:

        http://goran.krampe.se/blog/BzrOnDebian.rdoc

The article explains getting Bzr 1.0 running with the svn plugin on
Debian, in excrutiating detail. And a hack to get it to swallow the
Squeak VM repo. But the end section is the one that is interesting - it
describes two Bzr branches available "trunkmirror" and "experimental".
The first is a pristine mirror. The other is "open for interested
people"!

regards, Göran

 
Interesting. How is support for other platforms? Also, is there a way to
"speak svn to bzr" (instead of importing an svn tree into bzr)? This
would actually be more useful for our use cases and allow us to keep
using Tortoise or other nice clients.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

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Hi!

Andreas Raab <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Interesting. How is support for other platforms? Also, is there a way to

Afaik bzr exists for "all" platforms - it is written in Python.

> "speak svn to bzr" (instead of importing an svn tree into bzr)? This

I am not sure but I don't think it makes much sense.

> would actually be more useful for our use cases and allow us to keep
> using Tortoise or other nice clients.

There is a fledgling TortoizeBzr: http://bazaar-vcs.org/TortoiseBzr

Thing is - distributed SCMs are quite different from Svn/CVS. That is
the whole point.

Also this experiment is mainly directed at us on the "outside" of the
core VM developer group.
You possibly think Svn covers all your bases (but I suspect you would
also prefer Bzr or similar if you tried it) - but from those without a
"commit bit" bzr offers much more interesting options.

So a first step is this synched pristine bzr mirror that "others" can
work from/with. And then eventually who knows - maybe you guys will also
see the benefits of a more modern approach. :)

> Cheers,
>    - Andreas

regards, Göran