On 15-7-2012 13:30, Lester Caine wrote: > Mark Rotteveel wrote: >> I don't want to make this a source control beauty contest:). > > DO you actually NEED to migrate from CVS? Dimitry did ask, and to be honest, > in > the absence of a better option on the DVCS front, staying with CVS is just as > valid a choice these days. Will Subversion actually add anything other than > wasting time and requiring people to rewrok their end of things.
Personally I prefer Subversion over CVS, and on the other hand I don't really see the point of using a DVCS for a project like Jaybird. The behavior of CVS when renaming or moving files leaves a lot to be desired about, especially with regard to keeping history between renames and moves of files. Some of the upcoming changes I want to do (and unfortunately some I already did), involve renaming and moving files. I would prefer to be able to track the history between file moves and renames. This I can do with Subversion, but not with CVS. I do know that Roman was already planning to migrate to Subversion before I joined, so maybe he has additional reasons. > Jaybird's code base is small enough that it does not suffer from the problems > Subversion was intended to solve, and I would have thought that a move to a > DVCS > solution would be the only logical move IF one is needed. But CVS still > provides > a viable option at the moment, with people creating their own ports into their > preferred DVCS solution ... I still prefer Hg since it does actually work > cross > platform where Git requires different methods for Linux and Windows. Although > I'm quite happily committing to git projects via hg anyway :) I have up to now not used a DVCS (with the exception of IBM Rational Jazz which IMHO is over-engineered), and from what I do know about them I don't see the benefit for Jaybird. Mark -- Mark Rotteveel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ Firebird-Devel mailing list, web interface at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/firebird-devel
