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Interesting that Tcl uses Fossil for their development, I wonder how many projects out there are using it instead of Git/GitHub.
by pabs3 3y ago
Interesting that Tcl uses Fossil for their development, I wonder how many projects out there are using it instead of Git/GitHub.
- orhmeh09 3y agoFossil also uses Tcl for some of its web stuff, iirc!
- ankitrgadiya 3y agoTcl, Fossil and SQLite share an interesting history. SQLite started as a Tcl extension and the SQLite maintain Dr Richard Hipp is part of the Tcl Core Team as well. Fossil started out as a version control for SQLite development by Dr Richard Hipp as well, and might have influenced the Tcl development as well. Source: https://www.sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html https://www.sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/D.+Richard+Hipp https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/D.+Richard+Hipp
- rkeene2 3y agoI did (along with the help of several other people finding, building, and testing tools) the migration of Tcl from CVS to Fossil during the great Sourceforge outage. We looked at many options for migrating to such as Darcs, Git, Bzr, and Mercurial -- Larry McVoy (bitkeeper author and Tcl contributor and supporter, also on HN) offered Bitkeeper support as well. The core team liked Fossil the best at the time though -- some people do not view this as the right decision to this day. It seems to be working out okay, though!
- andrewshadura 3y agoD. Richard Hipp, not Dr (D. is an initial, not a title)
- hizanberg 3y agoIt’s not a mistake, he has a PhD from Duke University and is also commonly referred to as Dr. Richard Hipp
- zaebal 3y agoSqlite
- pabs3 3y agoHuh, from web searching for "fossil clone" and similar it is more common than I thought. There is even a GitHub-esq hosting site for it.