[FOSS-GPS] where is the repository of rtklib?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshepang at gmail.com
Sun Jul 1 13:08:53 PDT 2012


On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 11:04 AM, John Stowers
<john.stowers.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>> A rocket scientist I worked with for a few years told me that
>> he likes bzr because he was able to smoothly transition from *rcs*
>> and has since been able to continually improve his VC workflow/habits
>> at whatever pace was comfortable. And it's not just him--it seems
>> like a lot of hackers in rocket science and similar areas are
>> still using tools like rcs, or doing their best to just
>> `not deal with version control', because rocket scientists have
>> better things to do than learn how to use a VCS. And *distributed* VC
>> really is a bit of a rabbit-hole, so it's nice to be able to choose
>> how far down the rabbit-hole you want to go--and at what pace
>> you want to go there.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I
>
> Back to the topic at hand. It is quite strange that an open project
> does not have a public VCS.
>
> I suggest using github. Most developers know it now, and github offers
> a svn interface too. The github website is very nice (as is bitbucket)
> and not as horribly slow and difficult to navigate as launchpad (i.e.
> bzr).

Yeah, I was sad when someone mentioned bzr. I have worked with it some
months ago, and its poor speed seriously discourage me from
contributing to projects using it. Oh, and I also find UI of Launchpad
terrible.


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