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From: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
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Subject: Re: GWindows and David Botton
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>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org> writes:

    Stephen> In addition, CVS (not just FTP) is necessary when several
    Stephen> developers collaborate on a project. SourceForge also
    Stephen> supports mailing lists and bug/task tracking, which are
    Stephen> very useful.

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.

My favourite is TLA/arch as

* Like CVS, it is entirely open source.

* allows for renaming/moving files/directories, while maintaining full
  history, without resorting to ugly hacks.

* distributed repositories (meaning I can create my own repository,
  commit to it, and synchronise upstream changes, even if I don't have
  write access to the "official" server)

* GPG signed repository updates (could be good especially important
  when writing critical software; makes it harder for intruders to
  tamper with the archive undetected).

* TLA/arch will also work (read-only) over standard HTTP. It also
  works (read/write) over FTP, sftp (ssh), or webdav.

* Other points I have forgotten, See
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/> and
<URL:http://gnuarch.org/>.

Then again, this is getting off topic for this thread and this
newsgroup... However, I use it for all my Ada software ;-).
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>