RE: Anyone have VSS2CVS?

[Gianni Mariani]

We *have* changed to CVS.

Some of the reasons.
- cross platform support (win32/unix/mac)
- has all features we cared about in VSS
- easy remote access
- concurrent model development
- easy handling of branches
- easy merging
- easy to write tools to co-ordinate with bug system - bugzilla
- various web browser interfaces - cvsweb, bonsai
- integration with build monkey - tinderbox
- reliability
- Handles binary files despite what Greg Wood says.

Perhaps VSS has some of these features, but many developers were
bitten by bugs in VSS and refused to use them.  VSS became a noose
around our neck.

Now that we have moved to CVS, people are able to work from home,
from remote locations, on their lap-top while travelling.  CVS is
not perfect by any means but it sure makes it very easy to automate
many tasks.

I didn't need to convince anyone.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
Fernando Gomes
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:53 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: RE: Anyone have VSS2CVS? 


Are you changing from VSS to CVS? Can you tell me your reasons? I'm trying
to convince here at the company where I work to do the same, so all
arguments I can get are usefull

Thanks in advance

Fernando

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gianni Mariani [SMTP:address@hidden
> Sent: Sexta-feira, 12 de Outubro de 2001 08:07
> To:   Alex Jacques; address@hidden
> Subject:      RE: Anyone have VSS2CVS? 
> 
> 
> Try:
> 
> http://www.laine.org:8080/cvs/vss2cvs/
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
> Alex Jacques
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:31 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Anyone have VSS2CVS?
> 
> 
> The site for vss2cvs (http://www.laine.org/cvs/vss2cvs/) is down, and
> judging by a previous message to this mailing list
> (http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/info-cvs/2001-September/019557.html) has
> been
> since at least 4 Sep 2001.
> 
> Does anyone have a copy of this script that they could email, or better
> yet,
> post somewhere?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> BTW, I know there is an old version of it at
> http://alexm.here.ru/cvs-nserver/download/contrib/vss-to-cvs/jnairn/ but
> this is an old unenhanced version.
> 
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