[M3devel] M3 concerns

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> gravityboy (http://gravityboy.livejournal.com/39755.html) has a few
> things to say about people who compare svn with cvs:  essentially, he
> says cvs is so obsolete no one should even be comparing things with it
> any more.  Saying something is better than CVS is like saying that
> a new model of automatic washing machines work better than rocks by the
> side of the river.

 When I was moving from CVS to Darcs, a popular distributed versioning
software in the Haskell world, one of my colleagues gave a talk about RCS.
I wondered why he still uses and promotes RCS, when even CVS was too
restricted for me.  However after the talk many of my colleagues seconded
his attitude, because CVS was already too complicated for them.
 To be honest, I still use CVS for small projects, when other machines are
invoked, where I can't install Darcs. CVS has the charme, that you have
the versioning data in a readable form. You could even repair small
damages manually, if it is necessary.