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[ On Monday, April 17, 2000 at 14:39:37 (-0700), Sean Cavanaugh wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Renegade CVS
>
> The worst case I see realistically with my project over the next
> few months, is that all the various patches floating around the
> net, many of which are good and useful, can be accessible to a
> wider audience and in a centralized place, get backed-up
> automatically by the folks running sourceforge, and perhaps
> someday get merged into the real CVS. This method also solves
> getting the various patches working together, integrated, and
> tested, so the redundancy in work of people running multiple
> patches on their local site is eliminated.
The problem with patches that, well, they're patches.
CVS doesn't need a(nother) patch archive. It needs an architect.
> The OTHER worst case is that the 'real' CVS continues the way it
> is going and just dies off, and what I've got becomes at the very
> least a support area for fixing bugs and getting minor features
> written. By then it will either get real development, or
> eventually get replaced with a next generation open-source source
> management tool, which is inevitably going to happen someday.
Au contraire! No matter what happens to the development version of CVS
it's unlikely that the current "thing" we now call CVS will die off any
time soon. The like of the *BSD projects alone will keep it alive.
Please try hard to remember that "freeware" isn't market driven! It
will live everywhere that it is used as long as it serves a purpose and
it should not live one day longer! Whether people continue to choose it
for new projects will depend more on how stable and bug-free and easy to
maintain that it is, rather than on how many features it has.
Continuing to just "patch" CVS will fragment it ever more though....
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Greg A. Woods
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