[Pkg-octave-devel] Moving to git-buildpackage for octave

Sébastien Villemot sebastien.villemot at ens.fr
Wed Nov 9 08:10:15 UTC 2011


"John W. Eaton" <jwe at octave.org> writes:

> On  8-Nov-2011, Thomas Weber wrote:
>
> | Like it or not, git has an order of magnitude more
> | followers than Mercurial[1], a better external "social
> | infrastructure"
>
> If those are the best reasons for using some software, then I guess we
> should all be using Matlab on Windows.

You probably misunderstood Thomas' point. He was comparing alternative
options to be used within the context of Debian: this automatically
excludes non-free software. And I think that popularity criteria are
relevant (though not the only relevant ones) as long as they don't take
precedence over software freedom.

Best,

-- 
Sébastien Villemot
Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer
http://www.dynare.org/sebastien
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