Re: philosophical question about frequent saving of files

>First you imply that I'm lazy, now you're calling me arrogant.
>Oooookaaay.
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Sorry for the impression, I'm not trying to imply anything about your 
work habits. You were being quite rude though, and it doesn't help the 
discussion. And I mean that in the nicest way possible :). Of course, it 
is quite possible that I am being quite rude in turn, for which I 
appologize.

>>>Why not replace the "royal pain" instead of tacking on more technology?
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>>>sccs is quite low-overhead and doesn't require "buy-in" to something
>>>complex like CVS or subversion; it can be used personally. Or
>>>you can use rcs the same way. Then if you want to participate in a
>>>full-fledged VCS you can.
>>>Note how sccs/rcs etc evolved from personal backup systems originally
>>>written in shells and even as textbook examples of complex shell 
>>>programs. 
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>>Do you actually expect users to _change their VCS_? Do you actually 
>>think that encouraging developers to stop using CVS or Subversion is 
>>going to happen? Do you expect the tens of thousands of open source 
>>projects that currently use CVS (sometimes because their hosting company 
>>*cough* Collabnet *cough* uses CVS and there isn't anything you can do 
>>about it?) to switch to SCCS?
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>>Auto-saving and (more importantly) local versioning is a no-brainer.
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>Yes, it is a no-brainer, but that's why it makes me want to pause and think
>a bit more about it.
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This is where I leave off. I don't really care about the technical 
details, just wanted to voice my opinion about how useful auto-save and 
local versioning are. Just one more thing though -- there shouldn't be 
any step required of the local user besides hitting the "save" button. I 
wouldn't want to see a text description field come up every time I save 
the way it does when I commit to CVS. I also wouldn't want NetBeans to 
make the assumption that I am using any VCS whatsoever.

Richard