CVS, Wiki and other office stuff

[Emir]

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On 16/10/2003 11:11, Lloyd D Budd wrote:

| Lennart, are there specific aspects of subversion that are making it not
| close enough to done for you to consider?

I admin a rather large and complex CVS repository at work and thus am more
eager than most to find a replacement.  I'm following the development of
subversion closely because of the great improvements ir brings over CVS
(atomic transactions, WebDAV, renaming, proper handling of directories,
improved branching and merging, etc.) and I can honestly say that it's far
from the state where it can be recommended for use in production.

Subversion the protocol is not stabilized as yet, not to mention client and
server bits.  At one point I was thinking of writing an Eclipse plugin for it
so I got in touch with core developers with some questions because I wanted,
among other things, to provide a pure Java implementation of the protocol
itself before starting to build the visual components.  I was told it's far
too fast a moving target and they recommended I wrap the native implementation
because I would be unable to keep up with the changes.

~From their FAQ (http://subversion.tigris.org/project_faq.html#stable):

"WARNING: while Subversion is definitely reliable, the API and protocols still
change from release to release, so it would be wrong to say it is stable.
That's why it's still Alpha sofware. This means that if you depend on
Subversion, you should not be using whatever binary packages ship in your
distribution, they are most likely months old, and will no longer interoperate
with modern clients or servers."

If that's not reason enough not to recommend it for regular office use, I
don't know what is.  Subversion's got great potential so get the latest code,
try it out, get a feel for it, but by no means should you go ahead and
implement it for daily use in production environment.
- --
Emir.

"In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us:
~ 'Make us your slaves, but feed us.'"         -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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