You know, I think I am in the reply-to-considered-beneficial camp!
-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Collins-Sussman [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
Sent: Tuesday, 13 January 2004 10:58 a.m.
To: Walter Nicholls
Subject: RE: Re: Subversion advocacy
Did you mean to send this to the list, not just me? :-)
On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 04:47, Walter Nicholls wrote:
> >> there who like/need GUIs. TortoiseSVN, great. Subclipse, great
idea,
> is
> >> that actively being maintained?
>
> > TortoiseSVN is very popular. Subclipse is getting there. Both are
> > active projects.
>
> Tortoise is getting use here, it seems quite stable, and it is updated
> promptly for each release of Subversion. Subclipse the last released
> edition was against Subversion 0.31 and doesn't work with Eclipse 3.0?
> However I know the source code has been changing, I just haven't been
> brave enough to try compiling it myself.
>
> The biggest lack so far is any stable and complete SCC API interface
(ie
> what Microsoft IDEs and many others require). This looks like it will
> change, however, and I'm not just being hopefully optimistic. In the
> past, there has been problems with SCC projects having short lives.
I'm
> guessing this is because of the NDA requirement imposed on the source
> code. This round there is a group of people getting involved, so if
one
> person gets weary it shouldn't matter to the project, (plus we may be
> able to get a software development house to 'sponsor' it for the long
> term.)
>
> > Find a smallish project in your company, and do a "pilot" test of
> > Subversion. See how it works out.
>
> That's what we have done. It works out just 'bootiful'. However only
> about 3 developers and the repository is around 25MB (if you discount
> logs) .. I know there are much bigger out there.
>
> All new projects are being created in Subversion, but 1.0 is close
> enough now that I'll wait until March to move any of the existing
> SourceSafe repositories.
>
> - Walter
>
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