[WWdevel] Re: CVS alternative

[John Jones]

William Ziemer wrote:

> Just found time to look over arch.  It is very cool!
> Perhaps more importantly for me, I have never understood cvs 
> completely, but arch makes perfect sense.

I set it up once and got the basic thing to compile but failed to get it 
to compile with security settings turned on.  It was increasingly 
frustrating that it loves weird characters in filenames (weird meaning 
that they needed quoting when issuing shell commands).

Have you tried it?

John



> On Jan 10, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Sam Hathaway wrote:
>
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Michael Gage wrote:
>>
>>> We've been considering this, but haven't made any moves yet -- 
>>> mostly because we've
>>> had other things to do.  Sam, John, do you have any comments?
>>
>>
>> Arch is more ambitious and has a greater "cool" factor, but I think 
>> Subversion is the way to go right now, especially since it's possible 
>> to convert a repository from CVS to Subversion: 
>> <http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/apas11.html>.
>> -sam
>>
>>> On Jan 10, 2005, at 11:52 AM, William Ziemer wrote:
>>>
>>>> Most of the projects I link with are going to subversion:
>>>> http://subversion.tigris.org/
>>>> Maybe use this for the problem database?
>>>> Good to see you all again,
>>>> Bill
>>>
>>
>>
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> William Ziemer
> Mathematics Department
> CSULB