-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On February 11, 2004 14:39, Brent Graveland wrote: > I must say that I'm quite happy with subversion. I'm running a 3.5 gig > subversion repository, and because of svn's transactional backend (db4) > I replicate to 2 other offsite servers with great ease. No many hours > long rsync commands, just send a .gz of the contents of the previous > transaction and apply it on the replicants.
yes, subversion will eventually take over for CVS as it's got several advantages... it'll take a few years though as there are several things holding it back: o still waiting for an officially stable version (though that should change this month?), which is a bit of a worry when using something to house your crown jewels o packaging. until svn gets to a stable place, binary packages for distros worth using won't be readily available (e.g. on the OS media) o familiarity. most Linux/UNIX developers are familiar with CVS. most aren't familiar with svn. o GUIs. there are relatively few GUIs for svn. personally i couldn't care less, but it is a critical factor for many. the official GUI is x-platform, there is a Java GUI, and if you have a recent enough version of konqueror you can browse SVN repositories via webdav ..... but the choices are limited and the integration available with other tools that you get with CVS just doesn't exist (yet) o third party tools. there are things like GForge built around svn (yet) so... yeah, svn is the future. if you decide to jump on now, life on the leading edge can be a bit bumpy. personally, i wouldn't bet a large company project on svn (though i know people who would =), but i would definitely use it for personal and smaller projects ... especially since that'll give you experience with the SCM of tomorrow =) personally, i'll be very surprised if KDE is still using CVS three years from now. - -- Aaron J. Seigo while (!horse()); cart(); -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAKqWX1rcusafx20MRAkLGAJ95ihHXsPpUO1IXPhzo2p2M4qL78gCdGuEZ 3Oj6RmcMFGYesNjCduqa37k= =sT4U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
