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From: Chris Humphries <chris@unixfu.net>
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Subject: Re: GWindows and David Botton
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:08:50 -0400
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Stéphane richard writes:
> 
>>Brian May wrote:
>>
>>>Why use CVS for new projects now? There are lots of alternatives to
>>>CVS which aren't as brain dead, e.g. bitkeeper, subversion, tla/arch,
>>>etc.
>>
>>Well if if a project is hosted on sourceforge, CVS is the way to go
>>on that project server :-)
> 
> 
> Then I would suggest meta-CVS.  It is a CVS client that uses a regular
> CVS server for storage, but stores directory and filename information
> under version control, records merges, and solves most of the problems
> in CVS.
> 
> Check it out here: http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html
> 
> "System requirements: Meta-CVS runs on Linux, and on Windows under
> Cygwin."
> 

The value that sourceforge provides seems more important and useful
than the actual revision control stuff.

1) sourceforge is not going anywhere
2) bug reporting
3) webhosting + file storage
4) project details and news
5) cvs
6) not operated by any single one person, but may be operated by
    many (with or without the original person that started it).
7) free

the code revision etc stuff seems minor when there is sourceforge.