Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Mercurial?
From: dag_at_[hidden]
Date: 2012-03-27 13:02:35

Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I'm willing to migrate. I appreciate the benefits of a DVCS. I
> can convince my fellow Spirit/Phoenix/Fusion devs to migrate.
> But if you are telling me that I also have to convince all
> the other Boost libraries to migrate en-masse, then that
> is simply absurd!

It only seems absurb because you've ordered things in a particular way.
It's important, I think, to separate making boost modular from choosing
the VCS.

If boost transitions to a new VCS before modularizing, then of course
every library will have to transition.  It's one big repository.
There's nothing particularly absurd about this.

If bost modularizes first then I see no reason why each
library/subproject can't transition to a new VCS on its own time.  Sure,
it will be a bit more tedious to work with more than one VCS during the
transition time but it certainly is doable.

                            -Dave