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Summary of main arguments: Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: [...] main argument in favour of hg is not technical, but rather social. For GNU, I think it is far m
by frik 13y ago
Summary of main arguments:
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso:
[...] main argument in favour of hg is not technical, but
rather social. For GNU, I think it is far more important
to support a project that aligns with GNU's aims [...] GPL2+
Reply by Eric S. Raymond:
+1. And I say that as someone who *likes* hg and wishes
it had won. Repeating the bzr mistake would be stupid, stupid, *stupid*.
Edit: Raymond replied to Kastrup who replied to Hermoso.
The discussion evolved in the meantime, so it's probably better to read the thread yourself: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00238.html https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00...
- umanwizard 13y agoOff-topic, but that's not how Spanish and Latin American names work. His "primary" last name is Gutiérrez, not Hermoso.
- _delirium 13y agoThat's not an accurate summary of the main arguments. For one thing, on the pro-hg side you've quoted only the opinion of someone (Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso) who isn't even an emacs dev: the email starts with a note to please cc him on replies because he isn't subscribed to the list! This isn't the view of the GNU project, the opinion of the Emacs developers on why they prefer hg over git, or even the personal view of RMS. You'll get a better summary if you read the thread.
- asveikau 13y agoI don't know why people quote ESR like that's still a thing either. He wrote some essays in the 90s, wrote some possibly important code before that time, but one must understand his position on this list is basically troll.
- gcv 13y agoYou completely misquoted the replies. ESR was NOT replying to the OP, he was agreeing with a rebuttal of the OP's argument.