I agree that it is too early to remove support for Subversion. I also agree that the best alternative to it is Mercurial. (It’s like Git meant for use by for humans ;-)) I would hate to see support for either dropped.
Scott > On Mar 8, 2018, at 9:29 AM, Paul Franz <[email protected]> wrote: > > There has been a discussion going on in the NetBeans Users list about > removing support for SVN. And it was recommended to bring up the topic here. > > Just to give me 2 cents into the thought of removing Subversion support from > NetBeans. I am against it just because older FLOSS projects and of course > older internal projects for corporations use Subversion. So I think removing > support for Subversion from NetBeans would be a bad overall move. > > Just so that you have a little background on me. I use ClearCase and > Subversion for the corporation I work for. For my personal projects located > on BitBucket I use Mercurial. And for most part in both cases I use the > command-line for most of my source code control interaction. So I know that I > am an outlier, but my fellow developers need to GUIs to interact with source > code control. > > Paul Franz > Senior Principal Applications Engineer > Oracle Transportation Management > > > Forwarded message: > >> From: Claus Lüthje <[email protected]> >> To: Eduard <[email protected]> >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Do you use NetBeans with SVN or CVS? >> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:08:24 +0100 >> >> Many customers I worked with here in Switzerland still use SVN, too. >> I completely understand the urge to leave SVN for eg Git, but reality is >> slower … >> >> Claus >> >>> Am 08.03.2018 um 15:05 schrieb Eduard <[email protected]>: >>> >>> I'm using SVN. >>> >>> I'd be against removing SVN support from NB, doing would greatly reduce the >>> usefulnes of NB for me. >>> -- >>> Eduard >>> >>> David Heffelfinger wrote: >>>> Thanks for bringing this up, I'll discuss with the NetCAT organizers. >>>> >>>> David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
