Re: Moving GDB sources to subversion?

Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-29T10:57:08Z

> From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:56:30 +1300
> Cc: drow@false.org, brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com
>
> We can assume that GCC developers have made a sound technical decision.

Yes, we can assume that. But no one said that there's only one sound
technical decision. I'm sure there were downsides to that decision
even in the context of the GCC project (as opposed to a general
decision that _all_ GNU projects should adopt svn). I'm sure that the
decision they made was influenced, at least to some degree, by the
persons who were involved in making the decision, and by their social
dynamics.

These aspects are different in the GDB case, and, of course, GDB is a
different type of project with different (albeit similar) development
and maintenance patterns and different goals. It is quite possible
that the same set of considerations as those that were discussed by
the GCC team will, in our case, lead to different conclusions and to
different decisions, that are no less sound and technical.

> We should focus on how GDB development differs from that of GCC and
> whether that difference impacts on the choice of version control
> used.

Yes, 100% agreement here. But we could also decide not to do this
right now, and instead concentrate on development. That would be a
sound technical decision as well.

Btw, where's the thread (or threads) in which GCC people discussed
this issue?