Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:18:46 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@pobox.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR broken? was Re: Linux not FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19990629101846.F56075@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19990628154844.A25356@001101.zer0.org>; from Gregory Sutter on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:48:44PM -0700 References: <19990625235045.49711@ns.int.ftf.net> <199906280427.AAA10134@smtp3.erols.com> <19990628150318.A54807@bitbox.follo.net> <19990628154844.A25356@001101.zer0.org>
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On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:48:44PM -0700, Gregory Sutter wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 03:03:19PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > > > Did I mention getting rid of CVS? Ah, yes, I think I did. (It is > > necessary in order to get a decent handle on branched development - > > and you need branched development if you're going to do research.) > > Perforce, perchance? Perforce would be an improvement for the developers that presently have commit privileges. I believe it would significantly speed up FreeBSD development. The main reason we're not using it as of today is that we do not want our development process to be dependent on closed source software. However, Perforce wouldn't be a direct improvement for the people that do not have commit privs. They would get indirect benefits from the changes that Perforce supports, but they wouldn't get the direct benefits. I believe FreeBSD needs something that allows external parties to create branches/Lines of Development (for their own use) as easily as the FreeBSD committers can. There are no present alternatives that cover this well; I know of two systems at various stages of development with this capability, but none that are finished. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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