[Off-Topic] cvs

[Jozef Kosoru]

Hello,

sorry for the off-topic question but I think this is a good
place to ask. I plan to develop open-sourced web application
which integrates CVS browser, a bug tracking system and some
more interesting features to support development both
open-sourced and commercial projects. I would like to know
whether it is worth to invest my free time for such a tool.
CVS is rather an old system and I have no idea how widely is
used in development teams. So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

Thank you,
jozef

[Victor Bazarov]

"Jozef Kosoru" <jo**********@iblsoft.com> wrote...

sorry for the off-topic question but I think this is a good
place to ask. [...] So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

A better place to ask would be comp.software-eng, IMHO.
To answer your question: no, I don't.

Victor

[lilburne]

Jozef Kosoru wrote:

Hello,

sorry for the off-topic question but I think this is a good
place to ask. I plan to develop open-sourced web application
which integrates CVS browser, a bug tracking system and some
more interesting features to support development both
open-sourced and commercial projects. I would like to know
whether it is worth to invest my free time for such a tool.
CVS is rather an old system and I have no idea how widely is
used in development teams. So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

We sort of use it for the fortnighly common library
integrations, when the deltas are recorded between library
releases. But we don't use it for daily development, rather
we have an in-house system that is pretty close to CVS but
better suites our development process.

[Thomas Matthews]

Jozef Kosoru wrote:

Hello,
So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

Thank you,
jozef

No, I don't and never have.
I've used ClearCase and PVCS.
Some people at my work also use SourceSafe.

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[Noah Roberts]

Jozef Kosoru wrote:

So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

All the time.

[Fao, Sean]

"Jozef Kosoru" <jo**********@iblsoft.com> wrote in message
news:bn************@ID-164342.news.uni-berlin.de...

Do you use CVS in your development?

Yep, I love it. Far superior to SourceSafe in my opinion. I've also been
hearing a lot of good things about Perforce, http://www.perforce.com/ but I
have yet to use that.

By the way, I'm not exactly sure where the correct place to post a question
like this is but I would think that comp.programming would *probably* be a
better place.

[red floyd]

Fao, Sean wrote:

Yep, I love it. Far superior to SourceSafe in my opinion. I've also been
hearing a lot of good things about Perforce, http://www.perforce.com/ but I
have yet to use that.

I've used Perforce. It's powerful, but a real PITA.

[Gianni Mariani]

Jozef Kosoru wrote:

I would like to know

whether it is worth to invest my free time for such a tool.
CVS is rather an old system and I have no idea how widely is
used in development teams. So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

These are the following systems I've used:

CVS : the most common open source SC system used by nearly all open
source projects.
- It has issues but some very nice features - the most interesting is
the robustness - i.e. simple respository - meaning that if (inevitably)
the repository has a failure (disk corruption or even a CVS failure
mode) it is recoverable with some manual effort.

Perforce : powerful but learning curve.

Bitkeeper : used by linux kernel maintainers. It's well thought out.

Subversion : Touted as a CVS replacement - however robustness is my
biggest concern. So far so good. Already alot of tools that work for
CVS (like WinCVS and Tortoise are available for Subversion.

ClearCase : When I used this on Irix systems it was very cool but
unstable and slow. It was a "file system" and the filesystem "view"
could be changed. For the longest time I thought that was an advantage
but I soon realized that the ability to run remotely/disconnected was
the much more important.

SourceSafe : Next to useless for teamwork
http://www.highprogrammer.com/alan/w...ourcesafe.html

I have also used in house SCM's which I can say without fear are
inferior to CVS.

Here is a huge list of SCM systems:
http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/scm.html
So to answer your question. I think you want to abstract away the SC
tool and make it pluggable - start with a CVS plug-in.