[MUD-Dev] Re: Version Control (was: DBs and Events)

[coder at ibm.net]

On 18/02/98 at 11:40 AM, koster at eden.com (Raph & Kristen Koster) said: >At
9:44 PM 2/17/98, coder at ibm.net wrote:
>>On 16/02/98 at 03:37 PM, Vadim Tkachenko <vadimt at 4cs.com> said:
>>>coder at ibm.net wrote:

>Actually, CVS works quite well for handling multiple authors working on a
>single project. We've been using it at LegendMUD for a while now, and
>have had few problems with about 5 or 6 people mucking about in the code
>at the same time.

>It supports all sorts of things like branching and release versions also.

I've done a little more research.  CVS is heavily based on RCS.  It has
scalability problems (very large source trees) making for excessively long
checkout times (Xemacs is held as a prime example, mainly by the Xemacs
team).  Note however that the entire FreeBSD source tree is run under CVS
(an even larger project).  CVS also has no concept of a "project" per se,
or any ability to handle files which exist for some revisions, but not
others.  

Other contenders, such as PRCS
(http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~jmacd/prcs.html) which attempt to rectify
some of these areas.

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