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jordigh

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Oh the irony of hosting it on something other than SRC. SMH

http://www.catb.org/~esr/src/FAQ.html#self-hosting

From that link:

> Is SRC used to develop itself? No. That would be silly.

From Git's Wikipedia page:

> The development of Git began on 3 April 2005. The project was announced on 6 April, and became self-hosting as of 7 April.

You're kinda missing the point: this project is designed around a single user maintaining a linear history for a single file. Using it for a project would be a weird impedance mismatch.

That's not to say I find SRC compelling... in the slightest. Just that you'd never use SRC to track a project.

You're right, I was mostly just being snarky - but, that said, the source of SRC (sigh - what a terrible name, as others have said) is, in fact, just one Python file, so I suppose you could arguably use SRC for it.

I don't find it at all compelling either.

Hah. I just looked at the src (heh) - you're right, one file. I take back my argument.

If esr wants to fetishize a time when Real Programmers took patches over nntp and applied them in rcs, then by god he should go all in and self host the thing!

ESR is not the only contributor to SRC, check the log. So no, SRC would be the wrong tool.

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