[En-Nut-Discussion] Moving to Subversion

[Edwin van den Oetelaar]

Edwin van den Oetelaar wrote:
> Thiago A. Corrêa wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>    Just my opinion on this, please don't take anything personaly.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Marti Raudsepp <marti at juffo.org> wrote:
>>> May I suggest considering distributed version control systems before
>>> making that decision? Lots of open source projects are already
>>> migrating from Subversion to distributed systems; as far as I can tell
>>> it's only a matter of time when SVN meets the same fate as CVS.
>> Subversion is actively developed, recently they improved their merging
>> algorithms.
>> Different projects have different requirements, just because others
>> are using something else, it doesn't mean we should.
>> Also, we host our code, bugtracker, etc at SourceForge. Anything
>> different than CVS or SVN would be considering moving the hosting of
>> the code at least.
> 
> I would like to add to that.
> Subversion works on my systems, it integrates nicely with Windows via 
> Turtoise and with my Gnome Desktop, Eclipse (which I also use for AVR) 
> and Komodo (perl/python).
> It has a command line interface I understand. (since I used CVS before)
> We should choose the tool that is best for the project, not the tool 
> that is in fashion this week.
> 
> just my opinion,
> Greetings,
> Edwin
> 
> Ps. For your info, SourceForge will be integrating Git in their system.

It seems that I spoke too soon, it looks like mercurial has everything I
need, Eclipse/Komodo(5.0)/TurtoiseHG/Gnome integration, a command line
that is understandable.
Geezzz things move fast...
Gr,
Edwin