On 2011-04-30, Hans Georg Schaathun <h...@schaathun.net> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 20:21:58 -0700 (PDT), CM > <cmpyt...@gmail.com> wrote: >: While we're on the topic, when should a lone developer bother to start >: using >: a VCS? At what point in the complexity of a project (say a hobby >: project, but >: a somewhat seriousish one, around ~5-9k LOC) is the added complexity >: of >: bringing a VCS into it worth it? > > You are asking the wrong question. It depends relatively little on the > number of lines, and much more on what you are likely to do with it. > You guys are very code focused, which is natural given where we are.
Having absorbed what I have seen here, looked a little at Mercurial, read a little on the webs of Fossil and Bazaar I start to think there is great merit in all this VCS stuff for other types of projects. At work my projects contain very little coding (some Python, some matlab/scilab perhaps) but a fair amount of CAD/CAE, written reports, presentations (OpenOffice and that other Office), spread sheets etc etc. A mixture of ascii-files and various proprietary formats most of which is stored in binary form. Some of the CAE-work generate pretty big files stored in dynamically created subdirectories. Our computer environment is mostly based on Vista and Suse Linux and I still have a SUN Solaris machine in my office but probably not for long. Given this type of scenario, what VCS tools should I consider? Still the Mercurial/Git/Bazaar/Fossil crowd? Any one of those ruled out and then why? /Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
