Message-Id: <200502180232.j1I2W7nJ007744@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
To: Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp>
cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
       kernel@crazytrain.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed 
In-Reply-To: Message from Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> 
   of "Fri, 18 Feb 2005 09:29:47 +0900." <421536FB.5000606@tequila.co.jp> 
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:31:57 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> said:
> On 02/17/2005 01:57 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > Compare the number of developers, the number of overlapping
> > simultaneous development trees, and the number of patches that touch
> > overlapping files, and you'll begin to start to appreciate the
> > difference between a system that can work for Linux, and a system that
> > can working for simpler projects.

> apache might be simpler, but I doubt that for gcc. But well lets see
> what the gcc guys will decide.

gcc has very much less developers than the kernel. It has worked for years
around CVS' shortcommings, plus being a core GNU package, it is quite
unlikely to /ever/ go for a non-oss SCM. Plus the bureaucracy (have to have
a paper signing over ownership to the FSF for any changes) make a fully
Linux-style development unlikely (and thus BK (which was designed as SCM
for the kernel) not really useful).
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