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Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project



On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:21:30 -0500
"Vince Mulhollon" <vlm@norlight.com> wrote:

> 
> On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> >> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote:
> >> > Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a
package)
> would
> >> > be a long, complex, and rewarding project.
> >>
> >> But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swathes of fundamental flaws,
> >> largely historical. Better to integrate with something similar to CVS
> 
> References?  Just curious what the huge problems are.  It fundamentally
> seems to work, or at least I've not yet run into any road blocks.
> 

The command line arguments CVS use are truely original, which is a really
really bad thing !

:pserver:, :ext: mixed with environment variables.... crazy... what were
they thinking when they came up with that stuff, not simplicity thats for
sure.

I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it
because of a lack of alternatives.


Glenn 



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