From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1251 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1999 20:03:54 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 8 Sep 1999 20:03:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 27341 invoked by alias); 8 Sep 1999 20:03:47 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7728 Received: (qmail 27334 invoked from network); 8 Sep 1999 20:03:46 -0000 Message-ID: <005c01befa35$40dba620$1e73e3a5@dell450> From: "Wayne Davison" To: "Zsh hackers list" References: <990907162927.ZM32134@candle.brasslantern.com> <199909080900.LAA08747@paris.ifh.de> <19990908114038.B20503@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> <19990908154421.A18378@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> <990908172610.ZM13625@candle.brasslantern.com> Subject: Re: BK & CVS (slightly off-topic) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 13:03:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 One thing we may wish to do is to hold off on a decision to use CVS for the public archive until the BitKeeper 1.0 release occurs (currently estimated to happen on either September 22nd or October 1st). I don't yet have any experience with BitKeeper, but from what I've read, it sounds very nice. It will be free to use for Open Source development. Some of the things that BK proportedly improves are the proper versioning of moved files (which CVS handles very badly), and better support for distributed development. For instance, BK supposedly makes it easy to have several different "lines of development" in the same archive, e.g. the stable release, the test release, the up-to-the-moment patch release, and each developer's own private work area (which is local to their machine). This is purported to be much easier to manage than using CVS. Their website is http://www.bitkeeper.com/ . I'd be interested in hearing any comments people have on the software. ..wayne..