How is Bazaar-NG related to Bazaar and Arch in general?

[Martin Pool]

Aaron's description was good and accurate.

On  1 Jun 2005, ser at germane-software.com wrote:

> Ok.  Bazaar-NG is not currently Arch-compatible, Baz is not currently
> Bazaar-NG compatible, and they share no code (is that last assertion
> correct?).  We assume that architectural limitations in Arch mean that it
> is incapable of supporting some (possibly future) Bazaar-NG features.  So:
> 
> 1) Will Bazaar-NG eventually gain support for Arch repositories?  How much
> support will there be, and what is the point to having this support?

There will be a lossless and painless way to move forward from
arch/tla/baz.

Robert has some C code that partially supports bzr archives from the
baz codebase, and there are things like PyBaz/PyArch that we could
potentially use to support arch archives from bzr.  There is also
Aaron's baz2bzr, which is probably a good thing to use at the moment
if you have existing arch repositories.
 
> 2) Will there be two separate projects, in perpetuity, or will one of the
> projects be superceded by the other?

As Mark said, in the medium term there will be only one Bazaar project.

-- 
Martin