Sam Talebbeik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a long list of feature questions about CVS. I have used CVS on a > previous project years back. I am currently using a "commercial" product > in my present project. I would like to know if certain features of > this "commercial" product are or will be available in CVS. > > Is this the right forum to ask these questions ?
Yes. Be advised that the roadmap for "will be available" is not well defined. There are things in the TODO list (see the URL: http://ccvs.cvshome.org/source/browse/ccvs/TODO for the latest version of the file), but it is not at all clear when (or if) they will ever be implemented. If you have features to propose, this is the place where plead with someone to consider implementing them. If you are interested in doing the implementation, send patches to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with test cases and you are more likely to see them get adopted. You may also wish to take a look at other systems that do slightly different things than CVS. CVS is not the only game in town... in fact, I urge anyone considering moving from an existing commercial situation to something else to survey at least the following list. Aegis: <URL:http://aegis.sourceforge.net/> Bitkeeper: <URL:http://www.bitkeeper.com/> CSSC: <URL:http://cssc.sourceforge.net/> (aka GNU CSSC) CVS: <URL:http://www.cvshome.org/> CVSNT: <URL:http://www.cvsnt.org/> (Windows NT CVS) Meta-CVS: <URL:http://users.footprints.net/~kaz/mcvs.html> Subversion: <URL:http://subversion.tigris.org/> RCE: <URL:http://www.ipd.uka.de/~RCE/> (by Walter Tichy orig RCS author) RCS: <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/rcs.html> Vesta: <URL:http://www.vestasys.org/> It may be that the methodologies in one or more of the above more closely match your desired behaviors than the others on the list. You may also want to (re)view Brad Appleton's "The ACME Project Assembling Configuration Mangaement Environments (for Software Developement)" <URL:http://www.cmcrossroads.com/bradapp/acme/> as an excellent source about SCM. In my opinion, it is a bad idea to choose a system that does not already do most of what you want to do. So, try to choose the best tool for the job and you will likely be much happier than trying to force the wrong tool to do the job you want. Enjoy! -- Mark _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
