On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:14:22AM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > I've been giving some thought to VCS lately. I have no happy news to > report I'm afraid. I've looked at several that I know of, trying to > decide which of them is the best of those which are available, etc. Let > me first say that perforce and bitkeeper began in this comparison with > about two and a half strikes against them because of their non-free > nature. Neither managed to so completely and overwhelmingly impress me > that I was able to look beyond that fatal aspect.
What's so oddly scary is that bitkeeper is now being used for the Linux kernel, it looks as if Torvalds has begun to do his development through it... > And despite CVSgui (WinCVS) being best described by all as a smelly > flaming turd, it is far more convenient for win32 users than opening up > a dos box for command line CVS. MacOS Classic users don't even have > that option, they must use CVSgui. Subversion is command line only at > this time, making it a great burden for our win32 developers, and if we > plan to support MacOS Classic in the future, we can't use it. Considering I also code in win32, and I can't even *run* WinCVS, (even versions I compile myself). It is *indeed* a flaming bag of dog poo. As such, I find it hardly convenient. Also, what win32 coders? :) At last check I was the only one who did anything in windows except Vic :p Besides that, the availability of a GUI tool *should not* determine acceptance of a particular program considering that functionality is far more valuable... > circles, arch may as well. But for now, love it or hate it (and most of > us DO hate it), CVS is still the only tool that we can really use. It appears so :/ I do agree if only because subversion hasn't hit 1.0 yet... > We must, unfortunately, leave developing the next generation version > control system in the hands of those who have the skill and desire to work > in that field, and just have to hope that solutions they find will work > for us. Concentrating on our core competencies is always a good thing... -EvilTypeGuy _______________________________________________ twilight-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/twilight-devel
