Re: crm versions in CVS

"Eric S. Johansson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.crm114
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bill Y wrote:
>    From: Jason Lewis <[email protected]>
> 
>    Hi Guys,
> 
>    It seems to me that the version control of crm is a little bit complex, 
>    I'm not a source control expert but shouldn't all the versions of crm114 
>    be in CVS and tagged appropriately so one could just get the tag required?
> 
>    And shouldn't each user's repository be a branch from trunk? I'm not 
>    sure CVS can manage branches properly, but afaik, SVN can do branching 
>    quite well.
> 
>    And also, maybe the crm code should be separate from the mailfilter and 
>    mailreaver code? This would make managing installations easier for 
>    admins I think.
> 
>    Just my two cents worth.
> 
> Yes, and no.
> 
> Though you are *probably* right that some kind of source code control
> would be a darn good idea, the problem is that I've had some exceedingly
> bad experiences with CVS / Subversion and found that Sourceforge's
> systems to be less than useless.

...
> And, philosopically speaking, I'm morally opposed to having a single
> point of failure such as Sourceforge's server (which by the way they
> do NOT warrant in any way).

IMO, bzr would best match the behavior displayed on this list.  you can also use 
launchpad as a public archive.

http://bazaar-vcs.org/
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/mini-tutorial/index.html

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