Having used Castor for over 2 years and monitored the mailing lists for almost as long I've never heard anyone state a problem with CVS. I realize it's probably not a big effort to change, but I'd prefer to see any effort of the Castor team geared toward actually improve the Castor product itself (i.e. closing bugs, getting releases out).
--- Werner Guttmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good evening everybody, > > trying to keep things short at this point in time, > so please excuse my briefness. > > Werner > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:14:13 -0600 (CST), Keith Visco > wrote: > > > > > > >Hey Martin, et al., > > > >I hope you had a wonderful holiday. > > > >As for Subversion, I think I'm in the "Why fix it > if it isn't broke" camp > >that Nick mentioned in his previous reponse. > > > >I really don't think we have any resources to put > on this, and I'm very > >happy with CVS and my WinCVS client that I don't > really see any need to > >switch. > > > >If we were experiencing problems with CVS or we > desperately needed some > >feature in Subversion that doesn't exist in CVS I > think this would be more > >of an issue. > +1. Iow, exactly my thoughts. Is there anything that > does not work properly (or at all) with CVS. Or does > subversion offer features that we lack right now > ? Having said that, please note that I am not on the > resisting side, but just like to be convinced. > > >Just my $0.02. Of course with the U.S. Dollar being > at an all time low > >verse the Euro, I guess my 2 cents doesn't go as > far as it used to! :-) > Being on the Euro side of things, my 0.02 cents make > me go further and further these days ... , > > Werner > > > > >--Keith > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> is there already any plan to switch from CVS as > source code repository to > >> the successor "Subversion"? > >> I think Subversion has now become quite stable, > and we could take > >> advantage of reworked new tool. Here you can read > about all the new > >> features compared to CVS: > >> http://subversion.tigris.org/ > >> > >> There exists a python script "cvs2svn", which > makes the conversion of the > >> CVS repository quite easy. I shortly did this > transition with two CVS > >> repos, > >> and found now problems. The complete history is > preserved, and even tags > >> and branches are available after. > >> > >> On the client side there are available several > different SVN clients. > >> First of all there is the standard command line > client. For integrated > >> Java development there is Eclipse plugin called > "Subclipse". And there > >> is also a Explorer interface for MS Windows named > "TortoiseSVN". > >> > >> If there is interest, I could help in setting up > the SVN server. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Martin > >> > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------- > >> If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, > send mail to > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > >> unsubscribe castor-dev > >> > > > > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------- > > >If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send > mail to > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > > unsubscribe castor-dev > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send > mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-dev > ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
