From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6511c3dc6e1155c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Sender: obry@PASCAL Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SourceForge, CVS and revision control systems (was: GWindows and David Botton) References: <2004100312401227544%david@bottoncom> <87zn31njc6.fsf@insalien.org> <10m5opffddc6e4d@news.supernews.com> <87r7odnhv0.fsf@insalien.org> <87mzz0oqqy.fsf_-_@insalien.org> From: Pascal Obry Date: 05 Oct 2004 22:54:07 +0200 Message-ID: Organization: Home - http://www.obry.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: AVelizy-151-2-1-72.w82-120.abo.wanadoo.fr X-Trace: 1097009649 news.wanadoo.fr 16093 82.120.31.72:4649 X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4754 Date: 2004-10-05T22:54:07+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta writes: > If you think that the deficiencies in CVS are not serious, think I did not say that ! I wanted to point out that saying that SourceForge made CVS popular seems boggus to me. > again. No atomic commits, no recording of merges, no versioning of > directory structure, no replication, poor scalability (in terms of > performance) come to mind. Agreed with this. > I agree that CVS is "good enough", and I am aware that some very large > projects use it succesfully. But that is not my point. My point is > twofold: > > - CVS has known flaws. These are design, not implementation flaws and > only a redesign can fix them. There are several projects with the > stated purpose to replace CVS with better designs. To illustrate: > the name "subversion" is not an accident. Ok. > - SourceForge helps maintain or even increase the popularity of CVS > despite its known deficiencies. I'm still not ok with this ;) But well that's not a big problem ! Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.org --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595