begin quoting Wade Curry as of Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:49:04PM -0700: > Lan Barnes([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 08:53:03AM -0700: > > > </snip> > > > > CVS is so broken it is technically inferior to RCS. > > I'm surprised by this remark for the obvious reasons that have > already been brought up by Greg. I'm curious in what ways you > meant that RCS is better.
Normally I don't discount out of hand anything Lan says -- he's a sober, thoughtful sort of guy. But he really, really, really loathes CVS. I can't seem to figure out why, so I try not to spin him up about it too often. It just annoys him and confuses me. However... About all I can think of for a reasonable explanation as to why Lan is so unhappy with CVS is that he's been burned by CVS being good enough so that people try to build a real SCM system on top of it, repeatedly. And it falls down. On his head. To venture into the car-analogy realm, then... CVS is a tractor... and to people who want sports cars, it's ugly, slow, top-heavy, and lacks basic features like bucket seats, seatbelts, turn signals, and brake lights, etc. And if you ask for a sports car and get handed a tractor with some pinstriping, you're naturally going to get a little irate. When a bunch of hicks on tractors express contempt at your dismay, you're going to have a hard time explaining that you're not asking for low- profile tires in addition to the pinstriping without sounding a bit rabid. For 99% of what I want to do, CVS does the right thing. But I suspect that I'm a hick on a tractor compared to what Lan is trying to do. I still haven't figured out where the decentralized version control systems fit into my little analogy. So don't push it too hard. :) -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
