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Re: externals, present and future

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-10-20 20:31:09 CEST

Patrick Kelsey <pkelsey@gmail.com> writes:
> Certainly I've got a bit of a tough decision here. We need to get off
> of vss, and I am trying to head off the 'solution' of upgrading to vss
> 2005, which I am trying to do by presenting a compelling open-source
> alternative. Unfortunately, the requirements are a bit steep compared
> to svn's current capabilities and can be better met with cvs
> (certainly there will be the move/copy/rename issue with cvs, but it
> can be largely avoided). I would really like to see svn mature to
> providing a superset of the functionality of cvs, so perhaps this is
> all adding up to me pitching in ;) If the projected timeframe for
> getting full composition support in svn is workable from our
> perspective, maybe there is some middle ground where we could hobble
> along with svn until then, perhaps assisted by tools like your
> svncopy.pl.

There's no projected timeframe, unfortunately. Things get done, but
for the most part they don't get done in a predictable order. Right
now we're focusing on other priorities, like locking (reserved
checkouts).

Best,
-Karl

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