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VCS *does* matter (Score:1)

by sartak (7900)

I used to version all of my modules with darcs. Other than patches from my friends who were already sold on darcs, I received only diffs against CPAN HEAD. Once I moved to git (and perhaps more importantly, github), I did begin receiving patches (many for Any::Moose, a few for App::Nopaste, etc). darcs was cited as a major barrier to entry because it required ghc (which has a notoriously long compilation time).
So in my experience, choice of VCS definitely impacts user contributions. Whether it matters signi
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  by sartak (7900) on 2009.08.12 1:38 (#69996) Homepage Journal
  
  Another quick point I forgot to make: I have had comaint on Log::Dispatch for a month now, but I haven't touched the repository. I don't have any inclination to deal with a fifth version control system (Mercurial) for a single module. I'm sure I'm not alone in this laziness. :)
  
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