Re: VCS comparison table

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:44:11 -0400
Aaron Bentley [off-list ref] wrote:

That can lead to feature bloat.  Some plugins are not useful to
everyone, e.g. Mercurial repository support.  Some plugins introduce
additional dependencies that we don't want to have in the core (e.g. the
rsync, baz-import and graph-ancestry commands).

Shrug, it's really not that tough to do in regular ole source code.
On Fedora for instance you have your choice of which rpms you want
to install to get the features of Git you want.

Plugins also don't have a Bazaar's rigid release cycle, testing
requirements and coding conventions, so they are a convenient way to try
out an idea, before committing to the effort of getting it merged into
the core.

Hmm.. It's pretty easy to test out Git ideas too.  People do it all
the time, and without plugins.  Junio maintains several such trees
for instance.  Dunno.. I just think plugs _sounds_ good to developers
without much real benefit to users over regular ole source code.

The bisect plugin is just as performant as any other bzr command.  (The
whole VCS is in Python.)  Most people don't use it, so we don't ship it
as part of the base install, but anyone who wants it can have it.

Sure, and anyone who wants to use StGit on top of Git can download and
use it as well.

Sean