Re: Perforce vs CVS
[email protected] (Dan Sugalski)
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At 01:03 PM 7/26/00 +1000, [email protected] wrote: >I'd hate to see us create a barrier to entry which discourages people >from reading or contributing to the perl source. Here's a bigger issue with any source control system we choose. We *must* make sure that everyone, on any reasonable platform, has access to at least timely snapshots of the code, and I'd really prefer a full-blown client. Don't forget, p5 runs on VMS, MacOS, Windows, AS/400, RISCOS, OS/2, and OS/390 (at least) in addition to the various flavors of Unix. Forcing someone to port a client just to participate, or to require a Unix box, is a nasty thing, and one we should consider long and hard before we do it. (Both perforce and CVS clients run on most of the named OSes AFAIK, and if we have a pure perl client that's OK too) Having said that, we ought to choose the source control tool that meets our needs best and gets in the way least. The P in perl stands for Practical, not Political, after all... Dan --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- Dan Sugalski even samurai [email protected] have teddy bears and even teddy bears get drunk