Emacs chooses Bazaar

Emacs chooses Bazaar

Posted Mar 13, 2008 3:37 UTC (Thu) by zooko (guest, #2589)
Parent article: Emacs chooses Bazaar

I'm very interested in "high profile design wins" for decentralized revision control tools. Let's see, git has Linux (or does Linux have git?), X.org, OLPC, and VLC and many others (from http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitProjects).

Monotone has, let's see Pidgin (formerly GAIM), Dropbear SSH, and those're really the only ones that I recognize (from http://www.venge.net/mtn-wiki/ProjectsUsingMonotone).

Mercurial has Xen, OpenSolaris, Mozilla, OpenJDK, ALSA, NetBeans, XEmacs and Xine and many others (from http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/ProjectsUsingMercurial).

Bazaar has (from http://bazaar-vcs.org/WhoUsesBzr).... Um. Hm. I wouldn't call any of these "high profile". GNU MailMan is probably the most important one from this list to me personally.

Then there's darcs -- the one that I use and contribute to -- (from http://wiki.darcs.net/DarcsWiki/ProjectsUsingDarcs): not much unless you count ghc. (By the way, the project that is my passion and my day job is on that list: http://allmydata.org. Not "high profile" of course.)

So I hereby crown Mercurial as the winner of the First High Profile Decentralized Revision Control High Profile Project Race, March, 2008.

Of course, this list is just showing which projects that I personally consider to be "high profile", i.e. familiar and interesting to me. I'd be happy to hear about other people's views on these lists.

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I think that these Mercurial-using projects count as high profile: Drupal (popular blog
software), APT (used by Debian and Ubuntu for package management).  Doesn't change your
conclusions though.

Sorry, that should read 'Bazaar-using'...

Drupal is neither a "blog software" (more a general purpose web app 
framework that you can bend to do everything you'd like to) nor is it 
using Bazaar. There's a Bazaar-powered Drupal import mirror on Launchpad, 
and some developers use that one to create patches, but that's it. 
Everything "official" in Drupal still runs CVS.

Ubuntu uses bazaar(-ng). Features of launchpad.net are centered around bazaar.

Oh, darcs is used by Buildbot.  I think Buildbot is great!  Buildbot counts as "high profile"
in my book.