[slime-devel] Re: Mercurial

[Michael Livshin]

Brian Mastenbrook <brian at mastenbrook.net> writes:

> Helmut Eller wrote:
>> Some other big projects are also using hg.  Both, git and hg should
>> easily handle SLIME.  I would prefer hg, but the main question is:
>> should we switch at all?
>
> No. These days it appears that cvs is becoming the least common
> denominator from which people mirror git or $DVCSOFWEEK. Folks who
> want to use a distributed version control system can set up mirroring
> from cvs upstream. For the rest of us it's just one less package to
> install on N different computers where I have SLIME checked out. In
> fact it'd probably be even better if actual development took place off
> the mirror and got pushed to CVS HEAD when it worked reliably.

what he said.  this is effectively today's SBCL situation, BTW, and it
Seems To Work Just Fine.

cheers,
--m