Friday, October 03, 2003

Open Source CVS alternatives Picking an alternative to CVS in the general case would be very hard. If someone were to ask me to recommend one for everyone to use, I'd have to go with arch: the distribution, relative maturity, and CVS interop are tough to beat, and it really seems like the perfect roadwarrior system. Personally, I'm investigating darcs: I have an intuition about an isomorphism from literate programming constructs in LEO/noweb to patches in darcs' theory of patches that could prove quite powerful. If you could start from scratch (well, sorta; there's a CVS migration/integration path but it's much more involved than arch's), wanted support for automated testing and a permanently-consistent baseline, and possibly needed localized installations somewhere, there's no substitute for Aegis, and Aegis might win other folks over, too, just because it's so mature and professionally done. http://seppuku.editthispage.com/2003/07/30 (from IlyaM ... http://use.perl.org/~IlyaM/journal/ ) I wonder if a security-conscious distributed system like monotone could be used to collaborate on DNS/spam blacklists? Now if only arch compiled on cygwin ... 1:40:30 PM      comment []  trackback []