On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:19:51AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > the site is basically of historical interest, since kernel updates are > > > fed straight to the kernel maintainers. > > > > mailinglist have actually worked okayish, although the archives suck > > really badly. CVS has been an enourmous source of problems, but maybe > > you should move jfsutils into BK on bkbits.net aswell? > > Please, let's not put yet another project into a proprietary system that > many of us can't use because it's: 1) not available for our platform; 2) > not available for free because we have worked on other version control > systems; 3) got no guarantee that it will remain free. > > There are plenty of other good distributed version control systems. > Arch and Darcs both come to mind. Arch requires only a HTTP server (so > you could use SourceForge's more-reliable homepage for it) with scp > support, and Darcs requires a HTTP server with ssh and the darcs binary > installed somewhere. Both let you read the repository with only a HTTP > client. > m> There's also Subversion, of course, but its server-side requirements are > a little more consuming.
I'm (not suprisingly) in complete agreement here. BK is non-free and CVS or Arch would be my preferred, although I know nothing about Darcs I'm sure it would be sufficient as well. CVS of course gives you instant compatability. -- Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Jfs-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jfs-discussion
