SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

[Pedro F. Giffuni]

--- Garance A Drosihn <drosih at rpi.edu> wrote:
> At 7:27 PM -0800 1/9/04, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> >Hi;
> >
> >There is a comparison here:
> >http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
> >
> >I think there are compelling reasons to try subversion,
> >but we have to wait for a 1.0 Release, and this would be
> >something that should be done gradually.. for example
> >moving the ports tree first.
> 
> That's a pretty major test!  Could we perhaps pick off
> something smaller?  The "projects" repository, for
> instance?  (or is that still tied to the base-system?)
> 
> (I am very interested in subversion, but it is still
> something I need to learn more about...)
> 

I think we must wait until a 1.0 version is available. 

SVN is meant to be a replacement to CVS. The projects repository is using
perforce which happens to be a good tool, so moving it to svn is probably not a
step forward IMHO ;-).

cheers,

   Pedro. 

 

> -- 
> Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
> Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes
http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus