[Off-Topic] cvs

H

Harry George

Jozef Kosoru said:
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

As others have said, CVS is used very widely both for publically
visible open source projects (e.g., on sourceforge), and on private
projects.

But your real question is "I would like to know whether it is
worth(while) to invest my free time". This is a personal decision.
There are already good CVS GUI's (I use tkcvs and wincvs), and there
are IDE's (I don't use any). You could use them, or join one of those
efforts, or just reinvent the wheel yourself.

Reinventing the wheel is an honorable passtime in open source -- you
may not get anyone to join you or use your tool, but it is a perfectly
valid exercise. Who knows? You might come up with the greatest IDE
ever seen.
 
J

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
 
E

Emile van Sebille

Jozef Kosoru wnats to know:
[snip]
So my question is easy: Do you use
CVS in your development?

Yes, for most except one-off projects.

Can't-call-'em-throw-aways-ly y'rs

Emile van Sebille
(e-mail address removed)
 
H

Holger Krekel

Jozef said:
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?

CVS is used *widely* throughout the free/opensource communities.
But it seems that the interest is growing to move to more
advanced versioning tools like subversion or arch. Personally
i use subversion now wherever feasible/possible.

cheers,

holger
 
M

Matthew Wilson

CVS is used *widely* throughout the free/opensource communities.
But it seems that the interest is growing to move to more
advanced versioning tools like subversion or arch. Personally
i use subversion now wherever feasible/possible.

Help me out - what does subversion have on CVS? My biggest beef with
CVS is that you can't add a description to a tag. It would be nice if
when you tag all your files, like "cvs -r 'stable0.5'" you could also
write a few paragraphs that would get stored with that tag.
 
H

Holger Krekel

Matthew said:
Help me out - what does subversion have on CVS? My biggest beef with
CVS is that you can't add a description to a tag. It would be nice if
when you tag all your files, like "cvs -r 'stable0.5'" you could also
write a few paragraphs that would get stored with that tag.

each commit gets its own revision number (so you can reference each
consistent state of your repo by an integer). And you can set
revision-properties even for older revisions. Of course you have
the usual log-message associated with each commit so that might
just be enough for your use-case. There is a lot more, check it
out maybe starting from this feature-list:

http://svnbook.red-bean.com/book.html#svn-ch-1-sect-3

cheers,

holger
 
D

Derrick 'dman' Hudson

Matthew Wilson said:
Help me out - what does subversion have on CVS?

Read the FAQ. (http://subversion.tigris.org)

For one thing, you can rename files and directories. Also, "changes"
are managed as a unit, rather than just happening to have the same
comment and timestamp in multiple files. These are the main points
that stick in my mind.

-D

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