On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 06:48 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: > 2008/9/30 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 05:46 -0400, Thomas Thurman wrote: > >> 2008/9/30 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> > * CVS (and RCS) archives can be converted/exported to almost all other > >> > VCS if required. > >> > >> Are CVS and RCS archives equivalent? > > IIRC, widely. However I have to admit, my last encounter with RCS dates > > back to more than a decade, so ... ;) > > Which is why I was wondering why you were recommending it over CVS, you see. > > >> I think you misunderstand bzr. Bzr is a generic distributed VCS, > >> roughly equivalent to git. > > > > Well, my point is "lack of a userbase", "availability of clients on > > different platforms", "integration in IDEs", "VCS providers offering it" > > So far, I have never tripped over a major project which is actively > > using bzr nor have I ever met a user using it :) > > You might not be a fan of MySQL or Ubuntu, but I don't really see how > they qualify as not being major. OK, I wasn't aware about them using bzr ;) OTOH, GCC is using SVN, openSUSE seems to be using SVN, Debian seems to be using Git. > As for "availability of clients on different platforms": one > particular case I've run into was a company I worked at recently where > they decided to go for bzr over git. So far, git hasn't convinced me, either ;) > When I started I asked what > their rationale had been, and they told me it was because some of > their developers ran *nix and some ran Windows. They found at the > time that bzr had better cross-platform support (possibly because of > being written in an interpreted language). Perhaps CVS is even more > widely ported, though, merely by virtue of being older. CVS support can be found in almost all IDEs and also is available for most OSes. > > Or differently: Don't underestimate the "familiarity factor" when > > launching a new archive. > Very true. This is occasionally a very good reason to stick with svn > (or even CVS, although svn is practically a drop-in replacement for > CVS and solves many of its infelicities). Well, at least to me, GCC having switched to SVN (some years back) had caused massive drawbacks on my work on GCC. So I would not agree to "SVN being a drop-in replacement for CVS". It has very similar features, but the CLI is entirely different. Ralf -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
