On 1/30/11 11:40 PM, Robert Dodier wrote:
> On 1/30/11, Raymond Toy <toy.raymond at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> One item that I wanted to point out is that Sourceforge is considering
>> the end-of-life of the CVS service. There's no timeline given, but this
>> does affect maxima since maxima is currently using CVS. I suppose we
>> should consider moving to another version control system sometime soon.
>> (Other than the occasional downtime, I've been quite happy with CVS even
>> if it is old and crusty. I don't really want to learn yet another
>> system, but it seems we might be forced to.)
> Well, there have been suggestions to use some other system --
> I think git and maybe subversion have been mentioned.
> I don't care too much one way or another.
> I guess at this point I wouldn't mind switching to git.
I notice that clisp (also hosted on sourceforge) wants to move to hg
(mercurial). Perhaps a distributed version control system like git or
hg would be best. But I think subversion probably has the lowest
learning curve if you're already familiar with cvs. I have used the
others a very little. Only to get the latest version of something.
> best
>
> Robert Dodier
>
> PS. I seem to recall that someone was pulling the CVS repo
> via rsync every now and then -- is that still happening?
> I am thinking that it would be nice to recover the repo if SF
> grinds to a halt at some point ....
>
I still make rsync backups every month. I have one from Jan 15. I
doubt SF will grind to a halt, though.
Ray