Dan Armak wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:21, J�rg Schaible wrote: >> But if you have the impression, that it is not ready yet (although they >> are self-hosting for years), you could also take a look at Perforce >> (www.perforce.com). It is already in portage. Although it is commercial >> and closed source, it is free for OSS development [...] > Our social contract says "Gentoo Linux will never depend upon a piece of > software unless it conforms to... some license approved by the Open Source > Initiative (OSI.)". > Even if you read that to mean only what users have to use and not > developers, I for one very much don't want to have to use non-free > software to develop with Gentoo. > > Besides, the Perforce terms are that you have to sign a license agreement > to get these free licenses, and the agreement is good for one year. Every > year they give you a new agreement to sign, and there are no rules on how > they may change these agreements. I'd not want to bind Gentoo to something > like that.
Well, my point was: Don't use software (MCVS) that has meanwhile more than one compatibility wrappers to solve problems that are based in the architecture of the underlaying system. While I know Perforce (and its reliability) quite well and I know it is used in OSS development, I just want at least have spent a comment on it. If you consider the usage terms as evil, well, that's fine with me, but then take a really serious look at the "second" best solution. As mensioned Subversion is self-hosting since more than a year now and also used in the wild. Its architecture is somewhat similar to Perforce and it is made by people, that learned from developing CVS. I also had a look at arch some time ago, but AFAICS it was a bunch of scripts and small apps working together. And when I looked at the former two main developers flaming each other I was really upset how someone could even consider using this peace of software, since my imression was, that none of them would be really capable of creating a community around their code. And that's IMHO the main risk. Regards, J�rg -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
