[development] FAQ: Why is Drupal still using CVS when X is a much better choice?

Gerhard Killesreiter gerhard at killesreiter.de
Thu Jul 31 11:04:58 UTC 2008


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Adrian Rossouw schrieb:
> 
> On 31 Jul 2008, at 12:42 PM, Karoly Negyesi wrote:
> 
>> If we move, we move to SVN. My team, consisting of mostly pretty good
>> coders tried a few distributed RCSes and given this experience I am
>> now vehemently against any DRCS. The concepts are way too heavy and
>> the utilities are not ready. Most of these systems are not that mature
>> thus any docs from 1-2 years ago are worthless thus documentation is
>> not much. When I was for a DRCS in 2005/2006 I was a naive greenhorn
>> sorry for the ruckus I caused then, I now know better.
> 
> Wow. that's quite a turn around =)
> 
> I also like SVN over the others in that it removes complexity instead of
> adds more.

Well, then we just can stay with CVS. IMO SVN's features aren't that
vastly superior to spend much effort on moving.

Cheers,
	Gerhard

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