[Adium-devl] VCS + SVN 1.5

[Chris Forsythe]

On Dec 25, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Colin Barrett wrote:

>
> On Dec 25, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Chris Forsythe wrote:
>
>> On Dec 25, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Augie Fackler wrote:
>>
>>> We should come up with a list of options and evaluate them.
>>
>> Perhaps a better tactic would be to list all of our requirements, and
>> then look at the existing comparisons that are already out there, and
>> then do some testing. Some folks on the team require different things
>> than others. For instance, Alan/Graham (last I heard) dislike the
>> ways that things like git work, whereas Colin likes them. I think
>> nailing down the project's requirements is going to really be the
>> only way to keep a good balance for everyone.
>
> I'd like to propose an anti-requirement: "usable by average users." I
> think that we should not require people to use $VCS to check out the
> latest code, instead we should be doing nightly builds and delivering
> those automatically to users via Sparkle.


I disagree with this completely. If a vcs is hard for end users, it's  
probably going to be hard for us too. I don't think nightlies should  
be discussed in a vcs discussion, I don't think it's applicable.

Chris