On 7/7/05, Patrick Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 09:44, Darren Kenny wrote:
> > CVS and SVN were designed with globally spread out developers in mind -
> > TW wasn't. I think
> > this is what makes them stronger candidates as a code management system
> > for OpenSolaris.
> they still require developers to either have write access to the main
> repository
> and put all their files there or make a big mess with creating a new
> repository for
> local files and merging between them every now and then.

That's not true of svn as far as the write access is concerned. At
least if you're using svnserve + fsfs.

> please consider the (slightly newer) crop of tools that support really
> distributed
> work, eg. arch/bazaar, monotone, svk (there are more comprehensive
> lists, eg.
> http://www.venge.net/monotone/others.html)

A few prominent community figures have already noted large scalability
problems or other things with some of them. No offense, but of those
listed I hope that OpenSolaris would only get involved with monotone
or svk. The ideology, politics, and licensing of the others is not
something I would prefer to be involved with.

+1 to svk

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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