Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tailor. “Tailor is a tool to migrate or replicate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.”—written in Python.

# 24th June 2008, 9:59 am / bazaar, codeville, cvs, darcs, dvcs, git, mercurial, monotone, python, subversion, tailor, tla, version-control

Good architectural layering, and Bzr 1.1. Mark Shuttleworth on the growing importance of plug-in architectures as an open source project evolves, as they allow new developers to release their own components without needing commit access to the project. Django is pretty good for this, but more hooks (and a faster event dispatch system) would be useful.

# 9th January 2008, 2:06 pm / bazaar, bzr, dispatch, django, events, hooks, mark-shuttleworth, open-source, programming, python

Bazaar/Avahi mDNS Plugin. Adds ZeroConf support to Bazaar, so you can “bzr share” a branch over the local network and “bzr browse” to discover shared branches. Designed for sprints with a local network but no internet access.

# 10th July 2007, 10:17 am / avahi, bazaar, plugins, python, sprints, zeroconf

VCS Migration: The Hare and the Tortoise. Bazaar and Mercurial compared from the point of view of importing 1 million diffs from Mozilla CVS. Bazaar’s import is more robust but will take more than a month to complete.

# 26th January 2007, 11:44 pm / bazaar, mercurial, mozilla, version-control

Hacking Django, how Bazaar. This is a neat trick: use Subversion to track an upstream project, then create Bazaar branches to manage your own development against the trunk.

# 12th January 2007, 10:34 am / bazaar, django, subversion, version-control