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Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes
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Jason Earl |
Subject: |
Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes |
Date: |
Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:54:15 -0600 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Jason Earl <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:33:49 -0600
>>
>> Bazaar has this marked as a bug (wishlist), but they are essentially
>> waiting for someone to come up with a way to make texinfo documentation
>> from their existing rst documentation. In fact, it could easily be
>> argued that they are moving farther away from texinfo as they have moved
>> from simply requiring docutils to requiring the more complicated sphinx
>> documentation build system.
>
> If Bazaar developers want help in automatic conversion of their docs
> system to Texinfo, they should talk to Texinfo maintainers. With the
> upcoming switch from makeinfo written in C to texi2html written in
> Perl, it may be easier to add additional translators; at least that
> was the theory and the justification for the switch.
I am glad to hear this. I like Texinfo.
>> My question, and I ask this as a person whose one small contribution
>> to GNU is that I helped (a bit) with the conversion of the Emacs repo
>> from CVS to bzr, is why pretend that Bazaar is part of the GNU
>> project when the GNU developers (and systems administrators) seem to
>> overwhelmingly prefer git? Worse, they are actively trying to
>> undermine Bazaar, including long discussions on how to circumvent
>> Bazaar on this very list.
>>
>> Dump bzr and make git part of the GNU "system," if that is what it
>> takes, but do not pretend that Bazaar is part of the GNU project when
>> clearly it is not.
>
> Please do not exaggerate, and please do not generalize too much from
> what you've heard here. There are definitely several people who were
> discussing git, but I would not recommend concluding that they
> represent the ``overwhelming'' part of Emacs developers. They
> certainly do not represent me. I'm using Bazaar, and I do not intend
> to switch to git any time soon.
That's good to hear.
>> Bazaar has received nothing but bad publicity from the switch, and
>> the Emacs development group appears to have been hampered more than
>> helped
>
> I think both of these assertions are false. I definitely feel that
> Bazaar helps me more than CVS did. I do hope that Savannah will
> switch to the smart server some time this century, and I definitely
> would love to see Bazaar need less bandwidth than it asks for now.
> Then the quality of my life as an Emacs developer will be better yet.
> But it has definitely improved already, since we switched. So I would
> like to thank you and others who've helped make that happen.
I apologize for over-reacting. Like I said before, apparently I am too
close to the issue. I will keep similar opinions to myself in the
future.
Jason
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, (continued)
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Miles Bader, 2010/04/22
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Juri Linkov, 2010/04/23
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010/04/23
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Jason Earl, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Jason Earl, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/24
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes,
Jason Earl <=
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/04/25
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Karl Fogel, 2010/04/27
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Georg Brandl, 2010/04/25
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/26
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/04/26
- Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Andreas Schwab, 2010/04/21
Re: Using Git to manage your Emacs changes, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2010/04/07