There are other options for source control on Unix. Perhaps Perforce or Rational would donate a server to such a high-profile project? Perforce's client software is free (I don't know about Rational's), and the Perforce system has a number of advantages over CVS, particularly better support for branching, and atomic check-ins.
Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Werner Vogels [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 26 August 2002 12:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [DOTNET-ROTOR] Workspaces On 8/26/02 6:03 AM, "Andrew Stopford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know some discussion was made with getting Rotor onto CVS or such like > source control but I wondered if workspaces might be a great way of hosting > Rotor in a source control enviroment ? Andrew, This would be a great idea if the workspaces weren't very windows specific. Given the rotor goal of cross platform research/development it is important to have a set of tools that would work well under Unix. Doing any source control without CVS is a no-op in the Unix world and would hamper the distribution of results and the possibilities for collaboration. Behind the scenes we have been working on getting a community site up and running, were the central (CVS) ROTOR repository could be hosted and where related projects could have their public collaboration homes. At the moment there are two alternatives 1) a site based on an early public source version of the sourceforge software hosted at the U. of Colorado 2) A site hosted by the academic division of CollabNet. I hope that we can have picked a solution in a week or two from now. The reason for having that discussion offline is that at the ROTOR workshop only very few appeared interested in actually organizing this and as such we decided not to clutter the public mailing lists with our ramblings. -- Werner
