[wxCode-users] Re: Moving to subversion ?

[Francesco M. <f18...@ya...>]

Angelo Mandato ha scritto:
> It seems to be that there should be a hybrid of the two.  It sounds like 
> SVN  addresses the problem where one file in CVS may have been updated 
> for version 2.0 of what ever while other files are for version 1 and you 
> end up reverting back versions till you find the right file for that 
> version.
> 
> On the other hand, CVS seems ideal for well matured development where 
> the project is no longer undergoing major changes.
I think SVN is good to handle these kind of projects, too ;)


> There is one fact though, I hesitated from using CVS for a long time 
> because I was unable to grasp the concept quickly.  Though I did 
> eventually figure it out many other developers just throw their hands up 
> and walk away from contributing to open source projects.  I got a friend 
> who rewrote and optimized the code for reading and writing files in the 
> id3lib C project but he just doesn't want to learn CVS to check them 
> in.  I think the SVN has potential to attract other contributors.
I agree: I think SVN concepts are (slightly) easier to understand (like 
one revision number for each commit, even if it span more than a single 
file, etc).
But indeed, tools required to use SVN are easier to setup.
E.g. I remember that when I started to use CVS I had trouble with 
setting up (at that time I was using windows) tortoisecvs/wincvs + plink 
+ pageant...

With SVN it's easier:

  svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/mathstudio/trunk mathstudio

and IIRC on windows it requires only tortoiseSVN and not also an 
external tool like putty suite...

Francesco