Speaking for myself only, of course: Please, for the love of god, move away from CVS. Moving the code to a more modern VCS and a well-supported host. The least-painful move might be to SVN on Google Code.
I'm pretty sure there's nothing but CVS available for OS9, though, so the question has to be whether or not the pain of using CVS on Sourceforge outweighs the potential loss of people stuck on ancient OS's. With apologies to Bryan, I know I'd be a lot more likely to work with the code if it were hosted in a way that made it easier for me to deal with. -Bill- On 7/22/09 8:23 PM, "Bryan Baldus" <bryan.bal...@quality-books.com> wrote: 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
