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gpg: Good signature from "Matthew John Toseland (Toad) <toad@amphibian.dyndns.org>"
Well, we don't need massive scalability. Freenet isn't THAT big.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:36:28AM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> On Thursday 15 September 2005 07:21, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:44:44PM -0400, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 14 September 2005 17:08, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > >
> > > > I'd like to talk to them. I am told that there is much going on on the
> > > > Frost boards, and we have seen some new apps e.g. pm4pigs, but people
> > > > seem to avoid talking directly to us for some reason.. probably this
> > > > would be helped by working freemail integrated into the lists, some sort
> > > > of CVS replacement that works over freenet, etc.
> > >
> > > Take a look at git. Its file store is immutable and its all open source. IMHO
> > > cvs is g*****e. Something like git should be easily adaptable to freenet and
> > > makes a better source control system to boot.
> >
> > Preferable to arch? We would obviously want something where everyone has
> > a full copy of the repository, if possible...
>
> When the Linux kernel switched to git lots of performance testing was done. With
> large projects the existing systems were just too slow. Some have improved since but
> git has just got faster...
>
> The major problem with git from a freenet pov is that it is unix only so far. There is
> Mercurial (http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi) which was started at
> the same time as git with the same goals. There is a windows version and it is being
> used by the Xen project. From what I understand its storage model is not quite as
> freenet friendly as (unpacked) git. Either of these managers would make distributed
> development easier.
>
> Ed
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