On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 15:31 -0400, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Hi all, > > This is just one of those "Daniel is curious" questions :-) > > What are your thoughts on CVS? Most OOo developers are Sun developers. > What SCM do you use at Sun? > > CVS is sort of the de-facto standard in the FOSS world, but I also know > that it's a bit old and doesn't do the things that modern SCM's do > (renaming a file!). So I'd like to hear some thoughts.
CVS is fine for small centralised projects. It is really awful for larger open source projects. >From my point of view the problem is lack of distributed control so that things like diffs etc take a long time to do. > On a related topic, if I wanted to play around with a SCM, which would > you recommend? (open source svp). Some times I wish I had one. Right > now, when I work on a program, I keep doing a 'cp -r'. > > I'm looking at Darcs right now. It looks neat. >From my point of view I would do nothing until the current SCM wars settle down. Linus has thrown the gauntlet down and a lot of SCM projects are doing great things but this also makes them a little unstable. subversion is an enhanced CVS and improves things. Does not make fundamental improvements. aegis is a forced testing framework that has a source repository as well. archs latest release is badly broken. I went to the http://bazaar-ng.org presentation at LCA it looks like the future of source control but it really is raw. Ubuntu Linux is throwing a lot of weight to baz, an archs derivative with easier command structures and faster performance. If I was jumping today I would definitely look at this. They are actively canvasing support from other teams. Seems like a great idea. I want to write a proposal on implementing a replacement for CVS so I have been spending some time learning about this stuff. -- Ken Foskey OpenOffice.org developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
