[Scons-dev] SCons developer DVCS survey

[William Blevins]

Atlassian has Jira, so they aren't going to allow of easy integration of
3rd-party trackers.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> 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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