[Scons-dev] SCons developer DVCS survey

[Bill Deegan]

Russel,

Why stop looking at tigris?

One other bonus to github is integration with things like readthedocs, and
other third party tools is either better or doesn't exist for bitbucket (at
least last time I looked).

-Bill

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 2:51 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sun, 2016-01-10 at 23:12 +0300, anatoly techtonik wrote:
> > I am 1 of 2 people out of 11 who still prefer Mercurial. OMG. =)
> >
> > I wonder why Mercurial is considered bad. Is it just a poor user
> > experience with BitBucket or there is something more in it?
>
> There is a lot about Mercurial (and Bazaar) that I like, especially
> command lines, etc. Despite years of improvement, the Git command line
> still seems something like a Perl script designed to replicate line
> noise.
>
> However for me, the Git wins are explicit remote tracking branches, so
> that you can see things in gitg, and the transitory nature of feature
> branches. I think I am echoing Bill here, but the fact that branch
> identifiers are immutable in Mercurial means that Bazaar wins. And
> Bazaar effectively got killed off when Canonical pulled the finance.
>
> I still use Mercurial somewhat for personal projects, but these are
> default branch only repositories. Much as I really dislike Git in so
> many ways, it is a better tool for serendipitous, feature branch based,
> multi-repository working.
>
> As for the GitHub vs BitBucket thing: now that BitBucket has switched
> to being a Git resource rather than a Mercurial resource, it is purely
> down to whether BitBucket pull requests system is better or worse than
> the GitHub one, and most importantly whether being on BitBucket or
> GitHub is better for marketing.
>
> Apart from not working on Python 3.4+ as well as Python 2.7, SCons
> biggest problem is marketing.
>
> As for issues, I'm afraid I've stopped even looking at Tigris.
> --
> Russel.
>
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