Re: [xwt-users] Versioning Systems

--- Andrew Kohlsmith <[email protected]>
wrote:
> > Anyway, here's an overview of most of the free
> available options:
> >
>
http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/versioncontrol.shtml
> 
> This is all fine and good, but for what we're doing
> with XWT (java source 
> and widgets), what are these systems doing that is
> _significantly_ better 
> than CVS?  I wasn't aware of any issues with CVS
> that would warrant tearing 
> it out for something less popular and universal and
> more complex.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew
> 

 CVS is probably the worst widly available SCM out
there right now. It is however free and fairly easy to
install so people use it. 

 CVS has the following flaws.
- it's slow 
- no support for versioned renaming files and
creating/deleting dictionaries 
- no support for atomic commits over multiple files 
- weak tagging and branching support 
- no support for distributed repositories 
- CVS only tracks the history of individual files

Thats a list of the most obvious flaws, there is a
host of others.


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