[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >For example, CVS, which is the revision control system of choice in >the Free/Open source world is really nothing more than a bunch of >shell scripts layered on top of RCS and stuck together with a lot of >duct tape and chewing gum. It has no inherent knowledge of a
This is a myth. CVS doesn't use RCS at all nowadays. No shell scripts either. It was rewritten in C a long time ago. >network, or of client/server architecture. Many efforts have been CVS can be local or have a CVS server with or w/o a login and passwd, like ftp. I've also run it through an SSH tunnel very nicely. There are various clients that work through this client/server interface nicely such as emacs, xemacs, tkCVS, WinCVS. The emacs client can be part of dired too. >made to rectify this situation, however, everyone really knows, deep >down, that what CVS needs is a complete re-write from the ground up. It has been rewritten once. You should read some documentation on a current version of CVS. -- ------- Tom Buskey _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
