Re: Switch Repository to Git

On Thursday 03 July 2008 01:50, Florent Daignière wrote:
> * Edgar Friendly <[email protected]> [2008-07-02 19:46:34]:
> 
> > Florent Daignière wrote:
> > > I have no problem with you (or anybody else) using the tools they want.
> > > I just don't want brazillion of incompatible/forked clients to spawn up
> > > in the wild and to connect to the main network.
> > 
> > Reflecting on this idea, I think it'd be good (in the long run) if this
> > did happen.  Of course the network would get disrupted, but I thought
> > that the idea of Freenet was to have a disruption-resistant network.
> > And a brazillion forks means many new developers trying changes.  If the
> > project doesn't reject their changes, they would become a great force
> > for building a better Fred.
> > 
> > OTOH, without DSCM, forked clients will still exist, it'll just be
> > tougher to keep them up to date and to merge any improvements back to
> > the official client.
> > 
> > $0.02 from an oldie,
> > 
> > E.
> 
> Heh, I'm not against the idea here; I'm just being pragmatic: we don't
> have the resources to deal with forked clients.

It's an emergent system, 100 clients each with slightly different behaviour 
will kill it.
> 
> NextGen$

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