[M3devel] About current DCVS and Elego Compact version to don't fear the fork

Olaf Wagner wagner at elegosoft.com
Mon Mar 14 21:25:14 CET 2011


Quoting Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>
> Surely the answer is to use GIT or Mercurial or Monotone.
> And not anything based on CVS.

Yes. There has never been enough interest in DCVS, though it was fully
functional and quite usable for its time. I would have recommended it
six years ago, but not today.

Olaf

>  - Jay
>
>> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 16:26:54 +0000
>> From: dabenavidesd at yahoo.es
>> To: m3devel at elegosoft.com
>> Subject: [M3devel] About current DCVS and Elego Compact version to   
>> don't fear the fork
>>
>> Hi all:
>> I just was wondering was the current status of integration if so of  
>>  both tools, as I have been reading this techguide, see:
>> http://www.zdnetasia.com/don-t-fear-the-fork-how-dvcs-aids-open-source-development-62207783.htm?scid=nl_z_tgos
>>
>> about forks and distributed control version systems (maybe that   
>> should I call it diversion?).
>> Ok, I read that some of the Modules are ready for cvsup in   
>> Elego-compact but what about dcvs, does it makes sense for it to   
>> have it if it's not already integrated, or would you have   
>> considered this before current elego compact release, if there is   
>> anything specific towards that integration if so what else would be  
>>  needed or are they loosely coupled?
>> I appreciate any comments and opinion about doing that, for   
>> instance a given php developer which already has cvsup as its   
>> control version system mirror of cvs may want to contract someone   
>> to make a fork and so to do that.
>> Thanks in advance



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