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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 20:24:19 +0200
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Chris Humphries writes:
> 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.

Well, I have mixed feelings about this.  Despite its known and
annoying flaws, CVS was popular when SourceForge was established.
SourceForge chose to support CVS for its simplicity.  Now, the
popularity of SourceForge makes CVS popular, but the deficiencies in
CVS are still there.

I cannot help but think that CVS is the "C" of revision control
systems.  Ada programmers deserve better than that :)

With Meta-CVS, one can get the best of everything: the SourceForge CVS
server and surrounding tools, without the annoying CVS deficiencies.

At least, I think Meta-CVS is worth a look.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.