Well, as I mentioned previously, I am a complete newbie with SCCS software. I tried CVS, Subversion, and Perforce. The only system I could get up and running, that had documentation I could understand, was Perforce. Those other systems may very well be better, but since I can't figure out how to make them go, they aren't useful to me. As for Perforce not being "free as in speech", I didn't consider that an issue. Since nothing I produce would depend on Perforce, it would not affect any licensing. I agree that if you're trying to keep your machine completely "free as in speech", Perforce would not be an appropriate choice. I'm not acquainted with the "Linux kernel Bitkeeper mess". That mess (if I knew about it) might have caused me to change my mind about using a closed-source product. The Perforce Server is free (as in beer), but sharply limited (2 users, 5 client workspaces).

As it turns out, however, I finally just wrote my own script to take care of the problem of version control, and it works well enough for me that I don't have to worry about any of these programs. It just tucks my files away into time-stamped directories, so that I can find them if needed. It's not pretty, but it does the job.

In reply to Re^3: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by spiritway
in thread Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by neversaint

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