X.Org Foundation - Release Call - 3rd May 2004

[Michel Dänzer]

On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 05:28, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:42:29PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 04:43:57PM +0100, Howard Greenwell wrote:
> > > Jim and Daniel both complain about CVS, and would like to see another
> > > alternative.
> > 
> > I'd love to help out with a Subversion installation, 

[...]

> From one half of the 'complainers', this would be a step backwards.
> Subversion is really CVS dressed up with a nicer method of branching,
> proper copies, et al, and has its own reliability/scalability issues,
> not to mention the not-infrequent protocol/on-disk format changes.

In my experience, these issues have been fixed in the stable Subversion
1.0.x releases, and it offers a lot over CVS, including a viable
migration path.


Just my two cents.


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