Re: [Pyobjc-dev] CVS Sucks.

[Pierce T.W. I. <pi...@tw...>]

On Apr 8, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Marc-Antoine Parent wrote:

>>   tla/arch is both better designed then CVS, and adds enough to be 
>> worth the trouble, but its hard to learn.
>
> If I may add my opinion as a lurker:
> I like the tla/arch philosophy better than svn or cvs myself, but it 
> _is_ an investment to learn, and I suspect I would be less prone to 
> small, regular commits in a tla repository, which I believe are a good 
> thing.

   Most open source developers end up having their own local repository 
that they use to make local commits to, then they migrate their changes 
in a batch to the main repository when their ready.

   In my case, it would be nice to commit some changes locally to PyObjC 
while I'm investigating something, then submitting it to approval.

> The CVL tool issue you raised with svn is also present with tla.

  Sure, I was arguing more against changing then I was arguing for tla.

> I do agree that, if we change, tla currently offers more interesting 
> add-ons than svn, by virtue of its design.
> But it is also much less mainstream, so add-ons are also likely to 
> come fast to svn.
>
> If tools are decisive, I vote to stay with cvs until the situation 
> evolves with tla and svn;
> otherwise, +1 for tla by virtue of design, but we would need a strong 
> community buy-in, as there very much is a learning curve.

  Agreed.

  Pierce