Ted Gould said:
>
> This sounds like it is a new installation of CVS, and I'm going to have
> to ask the question: Why aren't you using subversion?
> (http://subversion.tigris.org) No, seriously, I realize that CVS has
> been the workhorse of Open Source for years (decades?), and I've used it
> extensively myself, but for new installs I'd do subversion. I think at
> the end of the day, you'll probably be much happier.
We are not using subversion for two reasons.
1. At the time we implemented version control, subversion was pre-1.0 and
we did not trust it for a mission critical installation. This was
probably paranoid but CVS was acceptable over proprietary solutions in
part because of it's long history and even non-FS/OSS people have heard of
it. If I were to implement version control now, this reason for rejecting
subversion is not as forceful.
2. Lack of GUI clients. I don't know the situation now but a GUI client
for the version control system was important in our choices. (Mostly to
sell to management.) At the time, there was no GUI client support for
subversion but GUI support for CVS was everywhere. Even most of our
proprietary development tools support interaction with a CVS server. As
subversion matures, the lack of clients will be filled. In fact, there
may be many already available since I haven't looked in a while.
For a new installation, subversion is the better choice over CVS as far as
the server side operation and features go. The client solution may still
force people back to CVS, however.
Alan
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