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 C1E51BB81 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:08:00 +0100 (CET) Received: from alex.barettalocal.com (h213-255-109-130.albacom.net [213.255.109.130] (may be forged)) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iBL9802X017550 for ; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:08:00 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by alex.barettalocal.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 745002BAAB1; Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:07:59 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <41C7E7EE.6030709@barettadeit.com> Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:07:58 +0100 From: Alex Baretta User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041007 Debian/1.7.3-5 X-Accept-Language: it, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr, Ernesto Ferrari , Paolo Donadeo Subject: Re: [Caml-list] [OT] Rant about VCS: Conclusions References: <41C3126A.3060101@barettadeit.com> <20041217213753.GA2295@pegasos> <20041218092716.18ca0ed7.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> In-Reply-To: <20041218092716.18ca0ed7.ocaml-erikd@mega-nerd.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 41C7E7F0.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; baretta:01 caml-list:01 wrote:01 sven:01 luther:01 sven:01 luther:01 wrote:01 developement:01 baretta:01 ...:98 ...:98 tree:02 external:02 gnu:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.0 (2004-09-13) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.0 X-Spam-Level: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:37:53 +0100 > Sven Luther wrote: > > >>We have had good success with subversion, > > > I looked at subversion before deciding on Arch. ... This allows me to > run a couple of parallel developement branches, share those that > need to be with other external developers and merge acorss the > branches pretty much at will. > > I have not seen another source contol system which handles > branches as nicely as Arch. > > Erik Paul Snively wrote: > It really does sound as though you're edging from "version control" > into "configuration management." If that's the case, you may want to > look at Arch and its surrounding tools. In particular, the > documentation at > projects.html>, "Multi-tree Projects and Configuration Management," > might be helpful to you. There seems to be some agreement on the fact the "Configuration Management Tool of Choice for Discriminating Software Company" is Arch. Our project seems complicated enough to seriously consider moving to arch. We have currently reimplemented our project's storage as a non-denumerable set of darcs repositories, distributed in a discontinuous manner over our company's network. I envision a significant risk of complexity explosion, because darcs only supports branches as duplicate repositories, which sounds like a nightmare. However, darcs is about as much as would fit in before Christmas. Maybe Santa Claus will put a working arch repository under my Christmas tree... Alex -- ********************************************************************* http://www.barettadeit.com/ Baretta DE&IT A division of Baretta SRL tel. +39 02 370 111 55 fax. +39 02 370 111 54 Our technology: The Application System/Xcaml (AS/Xcaml) The FreerP Project