Hi, I also believe that we should move away from CVS.
svn would have the benefit that it is very easy to use if you know cvs. Distributes systems have their huge benefits. If that DVCS is git or hg is more or less a matter of taste IMO. The downside is that distributes systems are more complex to handle. I do not know how much people out there who do occasional development - especially for the aircraft models - are familiar with DVCS or want to understand what happens in a DVCS. The backup problem is more or less trivially solved with DVCS since you have a distributed backup across the developers. Git offers to clone from a svn server (git-svn). I know several people who use git-svn for their personal work on a bigger project. So that might deliver a good compromise between a master svn and the git usage pattern for personal development. What gets lost with this approach is that 'Curt, please pull from git:...' workflow we see on virtually every git hosted project. I am not sure if this fine grained access control we have today on the cvs server is still needed. I would argue that this had made more problems than goods in the past. But if we still need that, I am not sure if we can do that with git or hg. I know that this could be done with svn but even there it is more complicated than just adding group write rights on some subdirectories like it is with cvs. I know that there is a git port for windows. But does this already work well enough? I have never tested ... My vote would go to a DVCS. But I can well live with svn. Greetings Mathias ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
