fenics team mailing list archive

[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:43:18PM +0000, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>
>
> Anders Logg wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:27:19AM -0600, Andy Ray Terrel wrote:
> >>>It's not a big problem to spend some small amount on hosting like the
> >>>current fee of $5/month for the plan we would need. But what about the
> >>>backend? Does anyone know if it's free? I know Launchpad is but what
> >>>about Bitbucket?
> >>Bitbucket has its own server software that is not free.  You can see
> >>the project at: http://bitbucket.org/jespern/bitbucket/
> >
> >Here's some more info on the matter:
> >
> >http://www.selenic.com/pipermail/mercurial/2008-August/020498.html
> >
> >This speaks to the advantage of Launchpad.
> >
> >But it's somewhat unfair to Bitbucket since Launchpad was also
> >non-free for a long while and only became free once they had a large
> >enough user-base.
> >
>
> Although Launchpad never charged users.

Yes, but they had the financial backing from Canonical.

Anyway, Launchpad is free and Bitbucket is not. The other two
advantages over Bitbucket as I see it are the support for mailing
lists and a more mature system for handling bugs and blueprints.

I don't see much difference between bzr and hg.

--
Anders

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Digital signature