Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Ongoing Comparison Between Version Control Systems

[Shlomi Fish]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Patrick Mauritz wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:59, Zack Brown wrote:
> > * In the "Ease of Deployment" section, you say arch is "excellent" while
> >   CVS is only "Good". I think CVS is probably the easiest to deploy, partly
> >   because it is shipped standard on all decent operating systems.  If any of
> >   them are going to have an ease of deployment rating of "excellent", it 
> > should
> >   be CVS. Arch is included in the unstable Debian, but Debian testing has an
> >   older version with different features. I think that makes arch deployment
> >   "good" at best, probably only "fair". I would personally categorize CVS as
> >   "Excellent", Aegis and BK as "Good", and arch and svn as "Fair".
> what is deployment? is it:
>  - availability of clients in standard systems? (1)
>  - availability of clients for standard systems? (2)
>  - integration in IDEs? (3)
>  - ease of use for novices (ie. not even CVS knowledge)? (4)
>  - ease of installing a server for that tool? (5)
>

I think I meant a combination of 5 and 2. But thanks for all the other
categories I can add... ;-)

>
> my rating:
> (1): CVS: good (delivered at least with free unices), others: fair
> (pretty easy to build and install)
> (2): CVS: good, others: fair
> (3): CVS: excellent, others: fair
> (4): all of them: fair - each tool has its own idiosyncrasies
> (5): arch: excellent (basically take whatever file serving tool you
> have), others: good to bad
>
> you gotta choose one of them (and ideally clarify 'Ease of Deployment' a
> bit) ;)
>

OK.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish
>
> patrick mauritz
>



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