From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-07-03T01:28:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Subversion

Christian Neukirchen wrote:
> Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-core@rawuncut.elitemail.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>My point is this:  Switching to Subversion is a poor choice, as it
>>doesn't go far away enough from the CVS way of version control.  There
>>are better alternatives on the way, and there's no need to rush to the
>>other choice to CVS right now, before the market has stabilized a bit.
>>Lately it seems that everyone is writing a version control system, and
>>hopefully someone will manage to come up with a really good system that
>>will use many brilliant ideas, like the web service you hint at, and
>>great portability.
> 
> 
>>Anyway, to sum it up, I think that now is a bad time to switch to
>>another version control system, as there's a lot going on at the moment,
> 
> 
> Full ACK.  Thank you for the first reasonable post in this thread.

That assumes that you *want* to go "far away" from the CVS model of 
version control. My personal opinion is that it is a good model with a 
flawed (or incomplete) implementation. The aim of Subversion is to 
remedy those flaws, and goes along way towards doing so.

Curt