Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

[Divacky Roman]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 07:01:31PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> Thanks Robert,
> 
> there are many interesting points in your previous post.
> 
> --- Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> ha scritto: 
> <snip>
> 
> > 
> > And, don't forget that the author of svk is a FreeBSD user :-).
> >
> 
> :-).
> 
> FWIW, I don't see Subversion, or any other alternative, replacing Perforce in
> the short run, but I rhink it would be important to seek a replacement path for
> CVS and it's weakneses (one of them... being basicly unmaintained and
> non-evolving). 

I do agree that cvs has its drawbacks but there is OpenCVS (cvs
reimplementation by openbsd folks) which seems to be actively maintained and
its authors promised things like atomic commits etc.

I think that switch from gnu cvs to opencvs is painless and should be done
(once the opencvs is in usable state) because

1) its actively maintained
2) its BSD licensed
3) might have some features gnu cvs doesnt have

roman