Thanks to everyone for their comments, which I have found illuminating. It seems to me that RCS would probably be sufficient for me now, as I am a single user but that CVS would cope with future developments if my colleagues also adopt Lyx. So I'd go for RCS now, if I could find any information on how to install it! The RCS lists are full of spam going back to 2001, so I reckon nobody uses them any more. Does anyone on this list have an idea of how to install RCS (or CVS, for that matter) on WinXP? Grateful for help!
Andre Poenitz wrote: >On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:11:04PM -0400, Matej Cepl wrote: > > >>Andre Poenitz wrote: >> >> >>>As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years >>>ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far >>>as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user system, though. >>> >>> >>Aren't CVS (and even more SVN) kind of overkill for personal one-user >>editing (which is what most people do with LyX)? I happily use RCS for all >>my needs and I haven't found a reason why to switch to CVS (I do not know >>much about SVN though). >> >> > >We use CVS at home and I don't think it is overkill. > >Andre' > > > >
