<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:small">The servers certainly work well or superior with Linux, I would assume HP and other high end clients are at least back ending the Plastic on Linux. The client gui, I loved it because it worked on Linux, and I thought it was great, but gui aside, if you go down to CLI level, if one prefers, it would be the same across all platforms. I thought they would be using gtk# on all 3 platforms, so the client experience should be the same given its a linux/unix GUI, but they may have the win client being WPF, but then it is all supposed to be Mono, so that wouldn't make any sense.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:small">I like open source too, but even if Plastic stopped the free license for 10 users or whatever it is, I would be fine for 10-20 more years just using the last free version, unless there is some miracle advancements in merging. Then if someone did do a much better merge, that would be worth paying a bit for IMO.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:small">I would be surprised if they ever revoked the free, but maybe they could take it down to 2-3 person groups size. Of course if you have project that needs 10+ on it, then there would be a cost, but if their GIT client is good? I am going to test that out soon, as I have a project on GIT hub that I want to work with via a gui client. Maybe their GIT gui will make it so i don't care whats beneath as the SCM engine.</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 7:54 PM, William Muriithi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> Well, seems like PlasticSCM has the same prohibitive problem as BitKeeper, which is that its proprietors may take their toys away at their will.<br>
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> Perhaps ok for a "corporate" project where there's vastly more risk of the company cancelling the project than of vendor rot, but utterly unacceptable for free software projects.</p>
</div><p>Plus, it seem like a Windows SCM. They say it has a weak support for Unix and OSX. Essentially, that to me imply you need to be on Windows platform.</p></blockquote></div><div>I noticed that, yeah. They didn't really explain what "weak" meant in that context. <br>
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<p>Now, I got curious by noticing it support both centralized development and distributed development, I thought this would be exclusive? How do they pull that?</p><span><font color="#888888">
</font></span></blockquote></div></div>I don't think that's too terribly hard.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you attach policy that requires that commits get some sort of approval in a central place, that imposes centralization. You can do that with Git by having commit hook scripts in a central place, for instance. That doesn't diminish that the model of Git supports distributed development.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Perhaps they do similar.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If the distributable bits only run on Windows, and you only have 1 Windows server in your environment, then that would effectively centralize things :-)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br>When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the<br>question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"<br>
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