[Bf-committers] Subversion <-> CVS

John K. Walton bf-committers@blender.org
Thu, 6 May 2004 06:53:11 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 6 May 2004, Alexander Ewering wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Ton Roosendaal wrote:
> 
> > - is the migration from CVS to Subversion 100% noob resistant? This  
> > means that doing a checkout, an update, a diff and a commit is just as  
> > simple as before?
> > - does it require additional software to be installed locally?
> > - are here *active* members of the current developers team experienced  
> > with it, and also at admin level for Subversion?
> > - can anyone simply tell me what - for our daily coding practice -  
> > Subversion would offer extra?
> 
> - does it really make sense to replace a running system?
> - why is the idea of replacing cvs (that's almost as standard as
>   christianity and jesus) suddenly brought up? Is CVS not
>   suitable for the task? Do other projects not use CVS?
> 
> Same thing I think about scons sometimes...
> 
> Just a suggestion and my personal opinion... stop "changing a running
> system"...

i agree with alex. spend time on features rather than infrastructure.
lot of time was wasted on autoconf.
 
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