"Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:55 am, Chris Friesen said: > > If you look at the archives, there have been a *lot* of people saying > > very much the same thing as you. I suspect people are getting tired of > > giving the same responses all the time. > > > > Here is what Linus had to say about it a while back: > > > > If people in the open-source SCM community wake up and notice that > > the current open-source SCM systems aren't cutting it, that's _good_. > > But it's absolutely NOT an excuse to use them today. Sorry. I use > > CVS at work, and I could never use it for Linux. I took a look at > > subversion, and it doesn't even come close to what I wanted. > > > > And I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology. In > > fact, I will go as far as saying that making excuses for bad tools > > due to ideology is _stupid_, and people who do that think with their > > gonads, not their brains.
> Yes, I do remember that post. But i'm not arguing from an ideological > basis; i'm arguing on practical grounds that the price of using BK is too > high for its supposed benefits. "Best tool for the job" certainly includes minutiae like "benefits" and "price". > I've not seen anyone else make that > argument here on the list and it is something that Linus may not have > given full consideration to. At least the comment that you quote gives > no consideration to it at all. It doesn't do so overtly, no. Doesn't mean it wasn't part of the equation. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
