Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:00:18 +0800 From: "David Xu" <davidx@viasoft.com.cn> To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014697142.ec6613@mired.org> Cc: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com>, "Aleksander Rozman - Andy" <andy@kksonline.com>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Clearcase and FreeBSD Message-ID: <00f701c1ba94$a8868980$ef01a8c0@davidwnt> References: <20020217161249.D0B2B3235@ns1.rwwa.com><5.0.2.1.0.20020220214519.02b98280@213.161.0.10><200202210204.g1L245H20108@clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com><3C74716E.E36286FF@mindspring.com> <15476.30005.502996.945006@guru.mired.org>
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> Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> types: > > "Danny J. Zerkel" wrote: > > > Maybe cvs is an academic toy. Most real development requires a = real > > > configuration management system. Why do you think there is work = being done > > > on FreeBSD in Perforce? > > Frankly, it's because CVS only permits a single line of > > concurrent developement, and it's a limiting tool; but > > CVSup is CVS-centric and fails with P4, and P4 costs money as a > > barrier to adoption for FreeBSD if the project were to cut over to > > it, >=20 > Not necessarily. The client is free, and in the ports tree. That > includes the server with an evaluation license, which limits it to two > clients and two users. Perforce offers Open Source software projects > free multiuser - which means unlimited clients - licenses. See <URL: > http://www.perforce.com/perforce/price.html > and search for "open > source" on the page. They even point to the FreeBSD license as a good > choice for a candidate. >=20 > > so there's understandable backpressure against using it for the main > > repository. >=20 > I think the real pressure is that none of the sources are > available. Last time I checked, they didn't even publish a description > of the protocol between the server and the client, so you can't > independently develop a client. They *do* provide a link library for > all their build platforms that you can use to build custom clients, > but you don't get source to that. >=20 > I admit to being biased, but I think that switching would be an > incredible win for everyone concerned. >=20 > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ > Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more = information. >=20 Does Perforce support replicate like FreeBSD's current CVSUP support? if not, how does it support large number of users or connections?=20 is it a trend that FreeBSD community will migrated to use Perforce = instead=20 of CVS? I prompt these because I feel somebodies try to create two=20 FreeBSD source repositories :( Am I wrong? Thanks, -- David Xu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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