Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:02:54 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Danny J. Zerkel" <dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> Cc: Aleksander Rozman - Andy <andy@kksonline.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clearcase and FreeBSD Message-ID: <3C74716E.E36286FF@mindspring.com> References: <20020217161249.D0B2B3235@ns1.rwwa.com> <5.0.2.1.0.20020220214519.02b98280@213.161.0.10> <200202210204.g1L245H20108@clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com>
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"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, so there's understandable backpressure against using it for the main repository. > The sooner FreeBSD and Linux can escape the clutches > of cvs, the better. Linux doesn't use CVS. It doesn't use source management software at all, right now; Linus has only recently got around to experimenting with Bitkeeper. No matter how you slice it, your tools constrain your work; FreeBSD has a two tier core/committer split, and a barrier to entry for casual patch submission because of CVS' single line of developement, and GNATS/send-pr, respectively. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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