Alternatives to Trac

Sy sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 24 22:40:28 UTC 2005


On 8/24/05, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 8/24/05, Sy <sy1234-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Trac is really young, and I'm not particularly happy with it.  The two
> > solutions I have are to either work with them in some kind of SQA /
> > suggestion capacity, or to find an alternative.
> 
> Trac is pretty old, as far as I can tell; it was documented in CACM
> back in volume 9 (e.g. - 1966).  And I remember seeing it in _Computer
> Lib_ many moons ago...
> 
> There's a reimplementation project (look for project "trac2001" at SourceForge)
> 
> ML/I is probably of more interest; it was originally written in PDP7
> assembler, but Parzival has redone it in C...
> 
> <http://members.shaw.ca/parz/ML1.html>
> 
> Parzival argues it's way better than M4; it looks pretty similar to
> SNOBOL to me, but I don't see it being likely that it'll become more
> popular than M4.
> 
> I'd much rather try to deploy ML/I than Trac, at any rate.
> 
> It seems to me that the world could indeed use a better macro-oriented
> text rewriting language, but I'm not quite sure what it ought to look
> like.  cpp isn't the answer; I'm not quite sure what is...

That was extremely eery to read.. and as I don't see any sarcasm in
it.. I'll just link to The SCM/Project management Trac: 
http://www.edgewall.com/trac/

And back away slowly...
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