"John W. Eaton" <jwe@octave.org> writes: > On 8-Nov-2011, Thomas Weber wrote: > > | Like it or not, git has an order of magnitude more > | followers than Mercurial[1], a better external "social > | infrastructure" > > If those are the best reasons for using some software, then I guess we > should all be using Matlab on Windows. You probably misunderstood Thomas' point. He was comparing alternative options to be used within the context of Debian: this automatically excludes non-free software. And I think that popularity criteria are relevant (though not the only relevant ones) as long as they don't take precedence over software freedom. Best, -- Sébastien Villemot Researcher in Economics at CEPREMAP & Debian Maintainer http://www.dynare.org/sebastien Phone: +33-1-40-77-49-90 - GPG Key: 4096R/381A7594
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