XBPS: project moved to googlecode

These days I've been working in packaging MoinMoin to create a wiki for XBPS, and two days ago that was accomplished. I created the wiki and after using it a few minutes I asked to myself: why do I have to host it? I don't currently own a domain, nor do I have a static IP and the last point, I don't want to have a server running all year.

So I started looking at the free alternatives, none convinced me; I started to look again at googlecode, and now they allow Mercurial repositories. They also have issue tracking, wiki and mailing lists for free. After some hours of work, I had ready the project, with documentation and howtos in the wiki, two mailing lists (one for only commits and another one for discussing user/development questions). I also moved the two repositories for XBPS: xbps utilities and xbps-src with the build templates to Mercurial.

Now it's all working and I'm really happy with the result, it is available at http://code.google.com/p/xbps

To fetch the xbps utilities repository you now do:

$ hg clone http://xbps.googlecode.com/hg/

and to fetch the xbps-src with the build templates repository you do:

$ hg clone http://xbps-src.xbps.googlecode.com/hg/ xbps-templates

All commits to the repositories are sent to the xbps-commits group.