Re: mcl.googlecode.com opens for business

I do not really want to stir up any kind of discussion and I do  
understand distributed versus centralized but  I am just not sure if  
in this specific case centralized actually sounds better to me. I am  
thinking of the decentralized idea idea to be something that is more  
suitable for projects with large developer communities. MCL does not  
fit that pattern. All we want is to keep RMCL alive. Any kind of fix  
that is useful to the few RMCL users left should find its way into the  
shared repository and not accidentally be left is some decentralized  
version somewhere. In other words I think decentralization is a  
potential avenue to kill RMCL even faster than via Apple OS X updates.  
At any rate, my input here is not important as we really have  
completely switched over to CCL.

Regarding road map: For me the ability to run legacy MCL code on Intel- 
Macs is great and allows me to finally ditch PPC boxes. All our new  
stuff runs well on CCL on Macs and via Cocotron is beginning to run on  
Windows as well. That's pretty exciting.

I think the best way to look at MCL is from a inspirational point of  
view. The code base has some value but is pretty messed up with  
leftovers from just about all the Mac OS versions in existence. I  
think CCL should really take MCL is its main input from a conceptual  
point of view, i.e., a lightweight IDE and not something like Eclipse  
nor LispWorks but in terms of code it may be better to start fresh.


Alex

On Sep 17, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Terje Norderhaug wrote:

> The real choice is between using centralized version control vs
> distributed revision control. I think the latter is a better fit for
> our project, facilitating the merging of private branches. See:

Prof. Alexander Repenning

University of Colorado
Computer Science Department
Boulder, CO 80309-430

vCard: http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~ralex/AlexanderRepenning.vcf

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