[Sparkle] LaunchPad + Bazaar vs. Lighthouse + Git[Hub]

[Pierre Andrews]

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Dave Dribin <dave-ml at dribin.org> wrote:
>  One thing to keep in mind with DVCSs and OS X programming is that the
> ability to branch and merge is limited by Xcode and Interface Builder.
> Those pesky .xcodeproj, .nib, and .xib files just don't merge well.  Yeah,
> these files are XML, but still, I don't trust the automatic merge 100%.
> Plus, if you get a conflict, you're pretty much hosed and need to just pick
> one.

Now that I read this, I remember one of the trouble I had with git...
it wasn't happy with the localisation strings file at they were in
utf-16, so they had to be dealt in binary commit, so no versioning for
them.
Not sure bzr is better with that.


> > - Git is under more active development (from what I can tell).
> >
>
>  Bazaar has gone from pre-1.0 to 1.4 in, what, less than six months?  Seems
> quite active, to me.

with ubuntu behind launchpad and launchpad behind bzr, I don't think
it can be seen as a project that won't be active ;)
I personally submited bugs to the bzr project, and they were dealt
with very quickly.

> > - Bazaar is implemented in Python, so it's a bit slower and less portable.

I'll give u speed, but I don't understand that portable argument. We
are speaking about OS X dev here, and python is supported by OS X with
no problems as far as I know.

> > - Bazaar is relatively lesser known. Any given random developer is
> > much more likely to know Git.
> >
>
>  Agreed, but it's not as if Bazaar is a complete unknown.  If you're going
> to pick based on what's popular to Joe Random Developer, Subversion beats
> any DVCS, hands down.

Yeah, I remember a few years ago, everyone was looking at me with fish
eyes when I was saying that I shifted from CVS to SVN :D
git is popular to linux kernel devs, and a bit around, but outside
this, it's not more used than bzr I think (ok, we need numbers here if
we really want a proper flame war :-P)

Pierre

PS: I like git too, the question is more about launchpad vs lightroom, no?