At 2002/05/21 09:54 +0300, Marc Girod wrote:
>I believe nobody should care for yet another RCS. However smart.
If the architecture crafted sufficiently well, should it not be possible to
provide a layer that provides a "filesystem front-end" interface to
Subversion? Then someone who wants to craft a ClearCase calibre build
system on top of that is free to do so.
Either way, a good, robust and complete version management system is an
essential component of a much wider variety of downstream applications.
Tightly integrated build management isn't all that useful if you're trying
to get control of a sales team's proliferation of PowerPoint presentations.
Most of the interface to a friendly sales-document management system will
be useless for build management. But if both of those systems run off a
single version control technology, it's a huge win for the people who have
to maintain and support them.
Subversion's mission, as I see it, is to fix the things that are wrong with
(or even irritating about) CVS (which implies some additional
functionality). Period. End. Anyone on this list probably agrees that's a
big enough job as it is. The open development process makes the odds that
Subversion will be structured so that it's useful as a base for more
sophisticated tools (after all, if it isn't, then just restructure it so it
is ;) ). If you want a killer build management tool with a robust, widely
supported back end, start designing.
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Received on Tue May 21 15:25:58 2002