Re: OT: Unix Version Control

Hi,

Comments follow.

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:49:24 +0100, Feighery, Raymond (RBS Insurance) <raymond.feighery_at_churchill.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
> To surmise:
>
> SCCS is outdated and effectively replaced by RCS.
> RCS is popular and seems to do everything I require.
> CVS is based on RCS but enhanced for multi-developer use (e.g. it will let
> files be concurrently edited and attempt to merge the files later). Very
> popular with large open-source projects.
>
> As I don't need the multi-developer stuff, RCS is probably the way to go;
> but I'm going to take a further look at CVS. And Subversion.
>

Thanks for your summary. I'm doing the same with CVS and Subversion. Only two exceptions.

1. Perforce. I use Activestate and Komodo IDE for perl (or python) development on XP. I opened a bug with Activestate because I could not get Komodo and CVSNT working together. The proposal from Activestate was to use Perforce (P4) because its integrated and work with Komodo if you are doing either perl or python. It works.

Marketing: Perforce is easy to use, nice gui, integrated with activestate stuff. Its also free for single user stuff, and can be /expanded/ for a price. Some work has been done on my bug request to integrate Komodo IDE with CVSNT, but I've not gone back to test.

2) M$ vss. The other exception is for /work/ environments. They have M$ vss at many work locations. I'm not going to comment further about it because its beyond the OT classification of this thread. ;-)

Regards,

Mike Thomas

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