On Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:10 PM, Galen Charlton [galen.charl...@liblime.com] wrote: >Funny you should mention CVS. I have a general question for the MARC/Perl hackers: Ed mentioned a while back moving from CVS to a more modern VCS such as Subversion or (my preference) Git. I'm willing to do the legwork to get the repositories moved. Thoughts?<
Speaking as a hobbyist programmer, I've only used CVS, and would hope that a move to a different system wouldn't make it a more complicated or difficult to use system. Until last November, my main development machine was (and still would be) a PowerMac 7500/G3 with MacOS 9. When I tried to update SourceForge CVS this May using my Mac, I believe my SSH login failed (it had worked fine in August 2008), so I switched to updating SourceForge CVS using WinCvs on my Windows Vista laptop (Nov. 2008). I'm not sure what changed to prevent the Mac from being able to get a SSH connection to SourceForge, but I chalked it up to being an age thing (SourceForge update making old operating systems obsolete; or some change to SSH that I couldn't figure out how to fix in the MacSSH client; it does seem like it took a little bit of work getting WinCvs set up, as well), and that from now on, the Windows machine will be what I need to use to be able to update anything on SourceForge. So, as long as there is an easy-to-use Windows-based client for the other version control systems, then I probably wouldn't have a problem with switching. Thank you for your time, Bryan Baldus bryan.bal...@quality-books.com eij...@cpan.org http://home.inwave.com/eija
