From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDAF4BB81 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:00:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBIF0407011031 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:00:04 +0100 Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA08751 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:00:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr (smtp4.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.27]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBIF03ID011024 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:00:03 +0100 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0403.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with SMTP id A54631C0033B; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:00:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from pegasos (AStrasbourg-201-1-1-183.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.73.183]) by mwinf0403.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 87A491C00337; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:00:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from luther by pegasos with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Cfg7J-0000zz-7l; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:03:33 +0100 Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 16:03:33 +0100 To: henri dubois-ferriere Cc: Alex Baretta , Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OT] Rant about VCS Message-ID: <20041218150333.GD3090@pegasos> References: <41C3126A.3060101@barettadeit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i From: Sven Luther X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C445F4.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C445F3.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 wrote:01 cvs:01 debian:02 dec:03 habit:05 interface:05 henri:05 alternatives:06 elaborate:06 switching:07 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:25:31PM +0100, henri dubois-ferriere wrote: > > Other VCSs such as subversion seem to be so unstable as to severely > > discourage their use in an industrial project. > > never used it myself, but i've heard lots of positive things from > people using subversion lately, in particular that it is reliable and > stable. > [to the point i'm finally considering switching over from cvs] > > can you elaborate on the instability of subversion? Well, most of the alternatives used to not be very stable a year or two ago. There are some troubles in subversions web interface (i think debian used webcvs or something such), which had the bad habit of locking the database, but apart from that it is pretty stable, especially since the 1.0 version was released. Friendly, Sven Luther