On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 08:07:25AM -0500,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 04 Aug 1999 02:04:34 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > (Redirected to gnucash-devel.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > It's been rumoured that [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > I suspect that there is probably some way that I could
> > > > generate patch files to represent the "whole thing" using
> > > > CVS; I would be glad to do so if someone could provide me
> > > > some instruction on how to do that.
> >
> > CVS isn't that smart. In particular it won't get the right
> > answer for files you've deleted, and it'll also have trouble
> > for new files.
>
> Sounds like there'll be a touch of a struggle there; learning
> over time...
<plug>
I'm a beta tester for a system called BitKeeper that is designed
to solve all of these problems. The idea is that BitKeeper will
be used for source code control of the linux kernel, for which
CVS is a woefully inadequate tool.
Really, for a highly parallel Unix based development effort like
GnuCash, there are no technical arguments in favor of CVS over
BitKeeper.
The impediment for some people will be the license -- it isn't
"Open Source." It is "Almost Open Source"(tm). It is
essentially open source except that you can't break the
regression test with your modifications. Licensing issues for it
are summarized at http://www.bitkeeper.com/bk12.html.
Anyway, once BitKeeper matures, I'll come back arguing that we
should use it.
</plug>
--
matt - http://www.lickey.com
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