From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2002-02-06T09:41:06+09:00
Subject: revision control, arch and subversion


There's a story on /. today about arch which is a revision control system 
that is trying to fix the problems that CVS has and competes against the 
subversion revision control system.  It sounds conceptually pretty good, 
but when I got to the end of the comparison between arch and subversion it 
is mentioned that arch has less dependencies than subversion (which needs 
an http server and a database) because it is written in 40K lines of shell 
scripts, sed and awk!  (http://www.regexps.com/#arch)

Imagine the nightmare that would be to maintain.  

What about a similar sort of system (except that it would probably be a 
lot smaller and easier to maintain) written in Ruby?  If it worked well as 
a replacement for CVS it could get certainly get Ruby installed on a lot 
more machines ;-)

Phil