rcs

[Igor Mozolevsky]

On 10 October 2013 20:36, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:

>
> On Oct 10, 2013 11:54 AM, "Igor Mozolevsky" <igor at hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 10 October 2013 19:15, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Oct 10, 2013 9:38 AM, "Julian Elischer" <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> >>
> >> > well since people expect RCS.. it is not a no brainer.
> >> > you are asking people to learn  a whole new tool  for functionality
> that
> >> is currently very simple..
> >> > edit file
> >> > ci -l file
> >> >     add comment.
> >>
> >> Such is the price of progress. I envy people who don't have to learn
> >> anything new in order to stay employed  :-)
> >
> >
> > So your definition of progress is "doing more work to achieve the same
> result"?..
>
> That would only be true if they were equivalent, and we didn't care about
> the extra features. You may not, but many people do, as the popularity of
> git and other distributed version control systems proves.
>

You're missing the point- the requirement is "provide a way to keep track
of changes for file X" not "have many fancy and unnecessary features"...


-- 
Igor M.