On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 12:42:10PM -0500, Fred wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 11:54, Christopher Schmidt wrote: > ... > > My biggest plus was the "ease of use" aspect: I've never successfully > > set up a CVS pserver with access from outside the machine, while with > > Subversion, it was pretty simple. (I'm not sure how hard it is in > > general, but Gentoo made installing it easy.) > > > > I don't have a lot of experience with anything in subversion or > > CVS beyond the "check in, check out, review history" aspects. The > > only thing that I care about is how much work I have to put into > > it to make it work, and that was pretty small with Subversion, > > where it didn't seem to be for CVS. > > Hmmm.... > > I use CVS remotely across the Internet all the time -- in fact, it has > made it possible for me to develop anywhere I can drag my laptop as long > as I can connect back to the central server at home. You basically have > to send it across a transport such as ssh, which is the way I do it.
In my few cases, I was working in a situation where either I couldn't have SSH access to the machine or I didn't really have the desire to create a user on my own machine. (Generating a new entry in an htpass file seems to allow a lot less access than an SSH account by default.) > I actually found Subversion a pain to set up, requiring a web server as > a part of the setup, and stop bothering with it at that point. I > could've done it eventually, but as always I was pressed for time and > CVS was already working. But that was back when Subversion had only been > out for a few months. I had Apache2 installed, which is part of the reason it was so trivial to me. There is a standalone server now, although I have no idea how well (or not well) it works. > Today Fedora has it pre-installed, and I'm sure many of the early > problems have been fixed by now, so I'm willing to give it another > whirl. > > Another question, unrelated: > > Is anyone using PHP5 in any serious mission-critical applications? I'm > very interested in switching to it -- but only if it is as stable as > PHP4. I don't want my client telling me he missed out on $20K in sales > because the server crashed. I've seen reports of really odd, trivial things still causing crashing in PHP5 up until about 2 months ago. I wouldn't trust it in production yet, based on what I've seen from it. However, I know some pretty big sites that use it without problems as well, I'm just wary of it still at this point. -- Christopher Schmidt
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