Fantastic. Though what Mercurial needs even more than Matt's full time attention is a really good forge. Bitbucket just really doesn't hold a candle to Github (and codeplex is pretty unattractive for anyone not a microsoft dev).
It's a genuine problem (for me at least) when starting a new project - bitbucket (-) and Mercurial (+) or github (+) and git (-). If anyone from github is reading this - please consider first-class Mercurial support. It would almost definitely be easier for you to do this than for bitbucket to make up the gap.
(I know lots of people prefer git, but Github already has that market pretty cornered. There is an opportunity among those who prefer hg.)
When we wanted to begin a new project - our choice of SCM and forge went hand-in-hand.
The big plus of hg is that it will work on all platforms - Win (yup), OSX, Linux
The big plus of bitbucket is that it does not limit the number of users you can add to your project - github's paid plans limit number of users.
I'm sure github has a hell of a lot of features, but we dont use most of them - what we do use, the pricing model of bitbucket makes more sense.
I'm genuinely curious - what's the main reason you discount codeplex? It doesn't have any restrictions on the languages/frameworks/target platforms etc, and you can choose any license you want. Is it that Microsoft just have a lot of banked hate-debt?
[+] [-] paulitex|15 years ago|reply
It's a genuine problem (for me at least) when starting a new project - bitbucket (-) and Mercurial (+) or github (+) and git (-). If anyone from github is reading this - please consider first-class Mercurial support. It would almost definitely be easier for you to do this than for bitbucket to make up the gap.
(I know lots of people prefer git, but Github already has that market pretty cornered. There is an opportunity among those who prefer hg.)
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[+] [-] sandGorgon|15 years ago|reply
The big plus of hg is that it will work on all platforms - Win (yup), OSX, Linux The big plus of bitbucket is that it does not limit the number of users you can add to your project - github's paid plans limit number of users.
I'm sure github has a hell of a lot of features, but we dont use most of them - what we do use, the pricing model of bitbucket makes more sense.
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