[Openmcl-devel] making contributions to ccl easier (by using git?)

[mikel evins]

> On Nov 30, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Dmitry Igrishin <dfigrish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 2015-11-30 23:53 GMT+03:00 mikel evins <mevins at me.com>:
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> > On Nov 30, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Dmitry Igrishin <dfigrish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > As I said in the parallel thread, I would prefer the installator for Linux (sh bundle),
> > the installator for Windows, the dmg for Mac OS X, the sources + binaries tarball,
> > and the Git repo which contains shell scripts for downloading appropriate binaries
> > and hooks which runs this scripts automatically.
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> Are you volunteering to write and test those pieces of software? Or are you volunteering somebody else to do it? 
> First of all, I'm new to Lisp and only on the way of learning it. I know a little about CCL
> (but I like it, as well as SBCL), and I completely forget SVN (didn't touch it since 2010).
> I also didn't have a much time to be volunteer due to my workload. So, it would be
> interesting to investigate and implement it, but it can take a long time in my case.

It seems like you’re trying to persuade the CCL team to switch to git, and to adopt a distribution strategy that you would prefer. That new strategy appears to involve some new tools and practices.

If you want your proposal to be as persuasive as possible, then you might consider including working and tested versions of the new tools and practices that you propose. If instead you propose that somebody else should do all of that work because you believe you would like the result, then the proposal is less persuasive.