Lan Barnes wrote:
Staying with cvs with such a compellingly superior drop-in replacement
(svn) makes no sense to me. It makes more sense to stay with sendmail,
which at least is feature complete (it is, isn't it? <me be mail
ignorant>).
The perfectly valid reasons for staying with CVS were:
1) SVN didn't have all the tools operating on all the OS's (Windows
weakness--now fixed)
2) SVN *required* a web server for a while (now fixed with svn+ssh file
access)
3) SVN has a dependency chain to build a mile long thanks to the Apache
*cough*Portable*cough* runtime(not fixed--but now has reasonably
up-to-date binary builds which alleviate most of the problem)
4) SVN had poor tool integration (see Subclipse which has finally become
useful).
Most of this only really got fixed recently. Subclipse only really
became useful in the last 6 months. Other IDE's still don't have
Subversion features.
Before *ALL* these fixes SVN conversion was a non-starter.
You are partially fighting the fact that the Subversion developers *blew
off* people who were requesting and submitting this stuff for a long
time. People will not commit the future of their project to a tool that
seems impervious to their requests and bug fixes.
-a
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