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Re: [mdz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: Bug#285745: Completion for baz]



On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 22:23 -0500, Clint Adams wrote:
> > What is baz?  Some quick web searches didn't really turn anything up.
> 
> I believe that it is the binary name of the software described at
> http://bazaar.canonical.com/ .  I've never used it.

Yup.

> larch was the original implementation of Arch, thusly named because
> there's already an 'arch' binary present on most systems.  It was a
> shell script and some C programs reimplementing FTP and whatnot.  I've
> never used it.

larch is a) known buggy, b) not supported upstream, c) superseded - tla
(& anything branched from it) is a superset of larch functionality.

> > I'm not too familiar arch, and any offshoots. So if tla, larch, and 
> > baz are all different flavors of arch, it would make sense to somehow
> > combine then. If there are a bunch of flavors of this tool, it would
> > be nice if someone could give a good pointer.

They are roughly the same, but there are some key differences - for
starters the UI's are quite different, and that gap is growing as we
overhaul the UI in baz. There may be model changes in the future -
though we do want to minimise those. I'm quite happy if the completions
are merged... but baz is a moving target (monthly releases...).

> It looks as though baz is diverging from tla in terms of UI as well as
> archive format.  ArX ( http://www.nongnu.org/arx/ ), which I have also
> never used, is a fork of tla that I believe is completely incompatible
> by this point.  I believe that there have been other Arch forks and
> reimplementations, but I can't think of any of their names.

Bazaar has a very strong UI focus, but is also has a custom archive
format that we hope will enable greater flexability in time. We are
talking with upstream (tla) in the hopes that they will adopt what we do
(or a lookalike :)).

Cheers,
Rob

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