RE: CVS future!

[Zakai Kinan]

CVS does have one drawback that makes it hard to deal
with and it is not able to host multiple projects
securely from one another.  That is why I will have to
 migrate.  I know there are other programs and scripts
that try to deal with that problem.  I have not heard
good things about them.  


Thanks for the response,


ZK 


--- Arthur Barrett <address@hidden>
wrote:

> ZK,
> 
> > An employee told my CIO that CVS is being phased
> out
> > so he came and asked me about it.  I am sure that
> is
> > not the case for the immediate future from my
> > research.  Can anyone comment on this as to the
> future
> > of CVS?  
> 
> 
> CVS is alive and well and being constantly
> developed.  It's been around
> for more than 21 years and if it worked yesterday
> for you then it'll
> work tomorrow just as well.
> 
> The 'ls' and 'dir' commands have been around for a
> while too and noone
> seems to be saying that they need to be replaced in
> a hurry...  For the
> use you described I would recommend sticking with
> the tool that already
> is doing the job.
> 
> The project 'split' (for want of a better word) some
> time ago due to
> different developers seeing different things as
> 'important': CVS, CVSNT,
> OpenCVS, DCVS and SVN.  No tool is better than the
> other - they have
> different strengths and weaknesses.  They are all
> actively developed and
> all work on multiple platforms.
> 
> Starting rumours about the iminent demise of some
> project is a lazy way
> to advocate for change.  There was a great article
> on the valuation of
> IT assets published in The Financial Times UK
> Edition 36,501 on Monday
> October 1 2007, and I believe the author will be
> releasing the complete
> whitepaper soon.  Basically it talks about the lack
> of business cases
> for the benefit of software and also the business
> case for maintaining
> legacy assets.  The costs of replacing software like
> CVS for SVN are
> astronomical and rarely worth it to the business,
> except perhaps that
> techie employees who like playing with the latest
> gadgets are less
> likely to leave that week/month for some other
> company, thereby reducing
> employee turnover.
> 
> > I do plan on migrating to subversion at some
> > point.
> > 
> 
> When choosing any software tool it is best to know
> what features you
> require and then look for the tool that offers those
> features, or even
> better look for what your goals are, then look for a
> process that
> supports that, then look for tools that can
> implement that process.  For
> instance knowing 'what' changed may be useless
> without knowing what else
> changed - so you need to relate changes to one
> another and maybe
> external events like project tasks, bugs or
> something else: so you would
> need toos that support changesets and links to a
> system that tracks
> those external events.
> 
> When replacing one system with another it is
> important to know the real
> value to the business that the change will bring,
> and the total cost of
> that change relative to the total benefit to the
> business.  See the
> abovementioned FT article for more information.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Arthur Barrett
> 
> 
> 



      
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