On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 09:12:42AM -0600, Tobias Weingartner wrote: > On Wednesday, May 4, "Alan Finlay" wrote: > > I have done significant work with ClearCase and CVS in a software > > development team environment, and some minor work with other revision > > control tools. Team size for ClearCase was around 20 developers, and with > > CVS around 10 developers. For an open source project like OpenBSD, CVS is > > quite likely the best choice, but for other situations ClearCase has > > advantages. > > *chuckle* Those are small teams. I've worked on projects (both open > and commercial) that had significantly more developers than what you > mention above. Locking has *never* been an issue for development. It > has, however, been an issue for various PHBses that needed some way to > satisfy their hunger for control over the people that actually get the > coding done.
I work on a small team, and locking (I won't mention the tool we're using, but let's just say it sucks) just means that people edit changes without checking the file out and then overwrite each other's changes. CVS++ On subversion, I don't have a problem with it, especially now that you can compile it without BSDDB. It does have the abhorrent new apache license though.
