<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>----- "Tom Geller" <tom@tomgeller.com> wrote:
<br><br>> Funny that you should mention Subversion, because I was good friends with CVS' chief maintainer in the late '90s.<br>> <br>> The chief complaint against both CVS and Drupal is the same: Too hard to use. Drupal 7 helped a lot; it remains to be seen whether it did enough.<br><br>That is a bit of an understatement <br><br>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System#Criticism<br><br>Subversion was definitely a marked improvement. But the developers took a poor implementation of CVS which was hacked on top of RCS and said let's fix CVS. Rather than say, what would make a good version control system and go build it. I personally love git, but love the concepts of distributed version control more.<br><br><br>-- <br><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><font style="font-family: 'times new roman','new york',times,serif;" size="5"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">xforty technologies</span></font><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Christian Pearce<br>888-231-9331 x1119<br><a href="http://xforty.com/">http://xforty.com</a></span></span></div><br></div></body></html>