On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:48:45 +0000, Travis Cross tc@travislists.com wrote:
I don't have to search; I was probably the one who brought it up first (only once though). At that time, the answer was that there was going to be no public version control at all. One of the reasons given was related to the need for offline operation. Another was consideration of Windows support. And finally, as I recall, was the consideration that managing version control would mean more time spent maintaining the project.
The reasons are still the same. Hans and I are currently joining efforts because Hans had suggested a bunch of changes (that we had talked about before) and I used his activities as an excuse to work on a redesign of Huchentoot that I had planned for some time. Some of these changes are pretty radical and they "span" several libraries at once, so it would have been tricky to release them piecemeal and we thought it might make sense to show the work in progress so people can play with it already.
Once the dust has settled a bit, I'll very likely return to private version control and regular (deemed-stable) releases for the reasons you correctly enumerated above.