From: Tim X <timx@...>
Date: 2007-04-04T17:40:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?

"Austin Ziegler" <halostatue@gmail.com> writes:

> On 4/2/07, Kevin Williams <kevwil@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perforce is very good, but expensive.
>
> As Ryan said, this isn't completely true for open source projects
> (although it seems a little harder for a non-GPLed project; I haven't
> tried to set one up, yet). However, even for corporations, Perforce
> isn't *that* expensive compared to some of its competition and how
> much it provides, and the level of support is just amazing.
>
> It's not going to be something that start-ups use first, though. If I
> were to use Perforce myself, though, I'd set up a public read-only SVN
> repository for others to access.
>

I saw an interesting article about bazaar, which is meant to be a replacement
for subversion that is designed specifically for open source type projects
which have many different contributors/developers and is supposed to be easier
and more intuitive than subversion. It sounded interesting. 

Tim

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