[Opensim-dev] future rexviewer merger

[James Stallings II]

Forgive me Adam, if I think this argument against Hg/GIT is a little leaky
;)

The reason I say this is that 1) we depend on 'very very very alpha code'
every day - in the corpus of the opensim work itself, and with the
employment of custom clients like hippo and meerkat. 2) if we hope to see
improvements in these toolchains that work to our benefit, we have an
obligation to adopt, test, and report, just as we ask of the broader opensim
community wrt the opensim project. This developement model works brilliantly
for us - why wouldnt we participate in it's employment for a different
important project?

That being said, such an adoption needen't be simultaneously end-to-end -
incremental and progressive adoption by some of our more adventurous windows
devs might serve to inventory the trouble to be anticipated as adoption
progresses, perhaps filing bug reports to get showstopping issues fixed, and
blazing the trail forward into the more progressive and far more productive
workflows supported by these tools.

I think the benefits for the community are strong, and should be examined in
this light, rather than dismissed because they are nacent. If we all took
such a position, where would opensim be now?

Cheers!
James

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Frisby, Adam <adam at deepthink.com.au> wrote:

>   I *wish* I could say that OpenSim's core dev team is getting the message
> about the toolchains - this is something that hobbles many innovators. Some
> have quietly adopted these newer toolchains for themselves, but much of the
> benefits of this are lost because core still sits in an SVN repo (yes, I am
> aware that Hg and GIT can work with SVN repos, but to do things this way
> rather dilutes their strengths).
>
>  *GIT/Mercurial have completely retarded clients for
> platforms-other-than-linux. The windows version for instance is
> commandline-only which does not work anywhere near as efficiently as
> TortoiseSVN/etc. (I am aware TortoiseHg/TortoiseGit do exist – but they are
> in very very very alpha stage).*
>
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