Re: Subversion uptake in OSS projects

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net>:
> Interesting. From the beginning, our goal has always been to take over
> the CVS user base... based on the assumption, of course, that most
> open-source projects use nothing but CVS. But it sounds like there's a
> whole separate base of people still using RCS in government, academia,
> or research. (Wasn't that what CVS was trying to replace?) Maybe
> someone should start an rcs2svn project.

For a lot of solo project, CVS's added features aren't worth the hassle.
I now suspect there is a vast dark mass of RCS troglydites like Paula
and myself out there for whom Subversion would be very tempting if
the conversion were easy.

I gave serious thought to whether a separate rcs2svn was desirable before
uttering my RFC. My conclusion was, and remains, not. About 85% of what
it would need to do is shared with cvs2svn.

-- 
		Eric S. Raymond
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