Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Thursday, July 12, 2001 at 09:31:09 (-0700), Peter Wolfe wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
> be used AND be adopted by new users.  I would hold out Perl as an
> example of a tool (in this case a language) with the philosophy of
> "There's more than one way to do it".  Enforcing one way to do it is
> best left up to local site (project) policy.

Well, unfortunately the ugly mess that is Perl is a good example of why
the "there's more than one way to do it" philosophy should never ever be
mixed into one tool.  yuck!

> What say you Developers/Maintainers of CVS?  Give us a picture of the
> future so that we (users) can make wise choices about what tools to
> recommend to our organizations.  IMHO it would be sad to see CVS whither
> away because it did not address user needs.

How many times must this be said?  CVS is _NOT_ commercial software.  It
will not ever "whither away" so long as it has even just one happy user!

It does not need critical mass.  It does not need or want "market
share".  It _IS_ free software.

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