Re^2: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices

I think the biggest selling point of any SCCS is what you might do with it in the future. Considering I have an account on SourceForge, and that they use CVS, using CVS for my personal perl projects makes sense as I'll be able to leverage all my experience using cvs with SourceForge with what I'm doing outside of SourceForge; I'll be able to create a project on SourceForge and move my repository over; and if/when I do so, I won't need to change anything that I'm doing in order to use it.

I know there are a number of open-source SCCS repositories found on the 'net now. But I would suggest that using what they use (whichever one of "they" that you choose) will make life easier should you ever want to put your project up there to collaborate with others.

Update: This isn't an argument against Subversion. Just a warning to educate yourself on what you may want to do in the future before committing to something now ;-) (It isn't even meant to be an advertisement for sourceforge ;-})

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Re^3: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by tirwhan (Abbot) on Nov 03, 2005 at 16:55 UTC
Just to note, one of the design goals of Subversion was that the command interface be backwards-compatible with CVS. So if you switch over, you won't need to relearn how to use your SCM, just remember to type 'svn' instead of 'cvs' (or `alias cvs=svn` in a shell startup file). The only thing you need to get used to is that you are now able to rename and move directories, as well as do a bunch of other stuff :-). Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Learning How to Use CVS for Personal Perl Coding Practices by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Nov 03, 2005 at 17:12 UTC
There's buzz that sourceforge is eventually going to offer subversion support. I sure hope so.	[reply]