On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 11:11 +0200, Ben Shory wrote: [ . . . ] > (trying real hard to move from vss to svn)
You could always miss out the Subversion stage and go straight to the
next generation of VCS -- Bazaar, Mercurial or Git.
As ammo against the manager who is scared of anything that doesn't have
the word M****$*** written on the contract that has to be paid for:
Bazaar is backed by Canonical and is a GNU project
Mercurial is Sun's VCS of choice.
Git has the whole of the Linux and Ruby on Rails community behind it.
And whilst you still have to shell out for some SysAdmin using these,
you don't have to pay a licence fee -- so TOC is far lower.
Also of course they are far more efficient and so programmer time is cut
making big savings.
The downside is only the lower level of integration with VS. Also the
Windows graphical tooling is not yet quite as good -- but it will be in
a few weeks time.
--
Russel.
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