2005/11/24, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com>:
Subversion also beats everything out there except CVS for adoption. The toolchain is there, the mindshare is there, and new people coming to Drupal are far more likely to be able to say "Subversion, oh I know that" than with
And, i used to say, those who don't know SVN often know CVS and can switch easely... That's why SVN is a good compromission imho.
darcs, bzr, git, or whatever. bzr only increases the barrier to entry for new developers.
However, let's keep an eye on others alternatives... So we'll be fully ready when time will come to another (or better) choice ;-)
Suggest: why not add a poll on http://drupal.org to ask people what's their favorite CSM..? We'll have so a good idea how ready future dev' are ready to switch to something else and what.. -- vi is a real WYSIWYG editor: you see text, you get text.