On 8/23/10 1:52 PM, Helmut Eller wrote:
- dherring@tentpost.com [2010-08-23 15:54] writes:
IMNSHO, there were no justifiable reasons for using CVS in 2005, much less in 2010. The choice of VCS has ramifications to end-users and potential developers.
It would certainly be nice if there were One True VCS in 2010 instead of the multiplicity of VCSs now.
Well, Emacs switched from CVS to Bzr a while back. For someone like me who essentially only needs "cvs up" once in a while the switch was a net loss. What used to take 2 minutes and downloaded 5 MB with CVS takes now 20 minutes and 200 MB. My urge to update is no pretty much zero.
As a slime luser, I certainly like being able to cvs up and get slime in a few (tens?) of seconds. I don't have much experience with other VCSs, but I didn't particularly like how long it took to grab asdf2 via git.
Anyway, that's my micropayment on this subject.
Ray