cvs et al [Re: [9fans] Rant (was Re: Plan9 and Ada95?)]

[Ozan Yigit <oz@blue.cs.yorku.ca>]

cnielsen@pobox.com (Christopher Nielsen) writes [in part]:

> CVS has a lot of problems. If you're thinking of creating a
> source repo, take a look at subversion:
>
> http://subversion.tigris.org/

while i'm glad that there are more efforts in proper source code
control, i don't see how subversion is useful to plan9 crowd. just
running the config reveals that it is really intended to live in the
special dormitory of linux, containing "apache portable runtime" and "neon"
http library (gnu patch?) and so on. [it also needs berkeley db which i don't
mind so much :] cvs, with all its failures, do not require this much baggage
to be useful. it is hard to tell if there is a useful core "subsubversion" in
the present blob that is actually extractable...

another notable effort, even less approachable in some ways, is bitkeeper
(by Larry McVoy). we cannot even port it around as it is not open sourced yet.
see http://www.bitkeeper.com. the documentation is online, so at least one
can check out the ideas and principles behind it.

oz
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