> Terry Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > > "Danny J. Zerkel" wrote: > > > Maybe cvs is an academic toy. Most real development requires a real > > > configuration management system. Why do you think there is work being done > > > on FreeBSD in Perforce? > > Frankly, it's because CVS only permits a single line of > > concurrent developement, and it's a limiting tool; but > > CVSup is CVS-centric and fails with P4, and P4 costs money as a > > barrier to adoption for FreeBSD if the project were to cut over to > > it, > > Not necessarily. The client is free, and in the ports tree. That > includes the server with an evaluation license, which limits it to two > clients and two users. Perforce offers Open Source software projects > free multiuser - which means unlimited clients - licenses. See <URL: > http://www.perforce.com/perforce/price.html > and search for "open > source" on the page. They even point to the FreeBSD license as a good > choice for a candidate. > > > so there's understandable backpressure against using it for the main > > repository. > > I think the real pressure is that none of the sources are > available. Last time I checked, they didn't even publish a description > of the protocol between the server and the client, so you can't > independently develop a client. They *do* provide a link library for > all their build platforms that you can use to build custom clients, > but you don't get source to that. > > I admit to being biased, but I think that switching would be an > incredible win for everyone concerned. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. >
Does Perforce support replicate like FreeBSD's current CVSUP support? if not, how does it support large number of users or connections? is it a trend that FreeBSD community will migrated to use Perforce instead of CVS? I prompt these because I feel somebodies try to create two FreeBSD source repositories :( Am I wrong? Thanks, -- David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
