Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed *notrademarkhere* clone

[Jeff Garzik]

nickn wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 12:12:58PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>My counter-question is, why not improve an _existing_ open source SCM to 
>>read and write BitKeeper files?  Why do we need yet another brand new 
>>project?
> 
> 
> Or improve BK to export and import on demand of an existing open source SCM.

That may be possible with OpenCM, but it's a bit of a stretch for the 
other existing SCMs.  Regardless, if BK can export metadata to an open 
format (such as a defined XML spec), then the SCM interchange 
possibilities are only limited by a programmer's time and imagination.

	Jeff