[CMake] Re: Migration to subversion

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 1/5/2008 09:24 PM, Jesper Eskilson wrote:

>Those of you who haven't already read "Version Control and 'the 
>80%'" should do so (http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=79) *before* 
>forming your opinion on centralized version control.

Interesting read, especially the paragraph about: "In a nutshell: 
with a centralized system, people are forced to collaborate and 
review each other's work; in a decentralized system, the default 
behavior is for each developer to privately fork the project.".

Anyway. Before flaming each others, please bear in mind that the 
decision remains in our hands, at Kitware. I won't speak for Bill or 
Ken on this specific issue, but the *vast* majority of our projects 
is hosted on CVS, and the rest on SVN. There is only a handful of 
contributors to CMake, and one of the most efficient distributed 
technology they use is actually known as "walking to someone's 
office"; *if* the CMake repository ever switches to a different 
versioning system, I would be personally surprised it is a distributed one.