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Subject: Re: [boost] ryppl and cmake
From: Sohail Somani (sohail_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-24 22:56:24


On 5/24/2010 10:23 PM, David Sankel wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 2:10 PM, David Abrahams<dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> At Mon, 24 May 2010 19:47:00 +0200,
>> joel falcou wrote:
>>> It seems counterproductive to be tied to git for the distribution part.
>>
>> At the risk of alienating some people… I believe Git is going to
>> win the DVCS wars.
>
> At the risk of alienating myself, I think there is a faulty assumption here.
> I see no reason to believe that there is going to be a clear cut single
> "winner" with DVCS. The systems clearly differentiate themselves. Quality of
> windows OS support, performance, and learning curve are just a few examples.
> If the future turns out as I expect, choice of DVCS is going to be similar
> to a choice of vim or emacs - mac or windows.

Github is really good. However, my brain cannot support the 5 billion
commands of Git. I use Mercurial. I think Boost using Git is good
because it will force me to learn Git properly.

Sohail

PS: Emacs


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