On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 09:32:23PM +0000, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Pierre Habouzit: > >> I think making it easier to use Debian with them is > >> within the mandate for non-free. > > > > There is ways to interact with perforce in debian, in a free way: > > git-p4 being one of them. > | * The import does not require anything from the Perforce client view as > | it just uses > | "p4 print //depot/path/file#revision" to get the actual file contents. > > Seems to me that this depends on Perforce. D'oh. heh okay :) > (I don't know anything about Perforce. Perhaps it's really dangerous > software. But perhaps it's just non-free.) OTOH I'm always reluctant to see new things enter non-free when there is perfectly suitable alternatives. I mean git, hg, bzr, or even the horrible svn can do what p4 does, or even way better. But I understand that you don't always chose the tools you have to use at work. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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