More than a good enough reason. Weston
On Thursday 14 August 2003 08:45 am, Alex Blewitt wrote: > Possibly the only (and indeed, major reason) not to use SVN at the > moment: Subclipse (the plugin to allow Eclipse to talk to SVN) is a > windows-only based system. It uses JNI and lots of other horrible > platform-specific stuff to communicate with SVN. > > It also smells of being very fragile; the code is compiled to talk to > /a particular version of SVN and BDB/ on the back-end. So, change the > back-end and everyone gets broken access until they upgrade. > > Call me old-fashioned for not using Windows, but one of the reasons > that CVS works is that it works regardless of what platform you're > talking to/from. And the plugins to tools like Eclipse are nearly > ubiquitous. > > I'd say that a migration to SVN, whatever the potential benefits, needs > to be carefully choreographed so that peoples favourite IDEs can talk > to it and be able to avoid changes on the SVN server. > > Alex.
