Re: [Pyobjc-dev] CVS Sucks.

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

This certainly is a topic that people care a lot about, 17 messages in 
a night :-)

On 8-apr-04, at 22:40, b.bum wrote:

> Anyone want to move to Subversion?

Why?

>
> I can have the project converted, moved over and setup in short order 
> -- potentially even preserving all history information.  It mostly a 
> matter of grabbing a block of time where the CVS repository doesn't 
> change.
>
> A number of advantages:
>
> 	- it isn't CVS
sure, and neither is SourceSafe :-)

> 	- web based repos browser that is much more straightforward
I seldomly use those

> 	- can mount the repos in Finder and drag a copy of the trunk or 
> branch just like any other filesystem


> 	- it isn't CVS
but why is not being CVS good *for PyObjC*.

> 	- repository checkout -- anonymous or otherwise -- is considerably 
> more straightforward

the initial CVS checkout is two lines in the shell, that can hardly be 
called difficult.

> 	- no more "wait 24 hours or so before changes are visible in 
> anonymous repos"

that is a SF problem, not CVS.

> 	- much better tagging/branching

we don't use those anyway. Well, I do tag official releases but even 
then I've never felt the need to revisit those.

> 	- atomic commits

That is a real advantage of SVN.

>
> Disadvantage:
> 	- it is a change, and change is scary
- Interface Builder doesn't know about the subversion meta files, which 
causes problems

Like Pierce I'm more interested in TLA, it's architecture looks more 
usefull. The GNU license isn't a problem here, I'm unlikely to embed 
TLA into my own projects.

DISCLAIMER: I have not used TLA or subversion, all my opinions on these 
systems are therefore based on hearsay.

Ronald
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