Hi All,

I just wanted to mention that I've been experimenting with Mercurial
lately (a distributed Source Code Management software,
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial) and have become very, very fond of
it and wanted to share some experiences with it.

I originally though of trying git (the SCM that the Linux kernel uses)
but crossed it off as I did not see it available on Windows.  I saw
recently that Mercurial has been in use by OpenSolaris and is getting
high praise by Sun and looks like it will be used for the new open
source Java, so I went to take a look.

So far, it's been really great: very easy to use and very fast to work
with.  I'm sure all distributed SCM's have the same advantages, but I
thought I'd mention it in case no one's tried them.  The great thing
to me is that you can make any directory version controlled and that
it runs locally.  So for my experiments, I've slowly worked my way up
to making my blue configuration directory source-controlled.  Running
locally, it means I can make changes and commit as well as view
history, do diffs between versions, etc., all without having to go
across Internet to a central server.

In the past I've been using Subversion for source control of all of my
blue project files, syncing up with a server on my web host (which I
highly recommend doing something of this sort, as it's saved me twice
already through hard drive failures).  I've now got Mercurial set up
locally and also again on my webserver so I can do my changes locally
on my laptop, then push the changes from my local repository to the
one on the web server for safe-keeping and also to share amongst other
computers I use.

The great thing now is that I can continue to do changes when away
from the internet at a cafe or on the road, I can continue to do
commits and all that, and have all of those changes logged and can
sync that again later.

I'd highly recommend trying this software out for your own personal
projects (Csound projects, writings, configuration settings, etc).  I
think too that in the future it would be very useful for things like
Csound. (However, it doesn't have the tool support that CVS and
Subversion have, so I have no expectations that we'll actually switch
from the way we're working now anytime soon.)

Anyways, just sort of excited by it and thought I'd share that. =)

Thanks!
steven

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