Re: Bug#445866: ITP: perforce -- closed source revision control system
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
> Seems to me that this depends on Perforce. D'oh.
>
> (I don't know anything about Perforce. Perhaps it's really dangerous
> software. But perhaps it's just non-free.)
Perforce is an absolutely *excellent* VCS with the unfortunate
distinction of being proprietary. SubVersion can do most (but not all) of
what it does, albeit 10 times slower. Still, I've migrated all of my stuff
over to subversion, because, well, subversion is free. Perforce is free (as
in "free beer") for open source developers, if you want more than 2 users on
one VCS server, you have to sign a contract, get a license, give the
perforce people full access to your repo, sign a new contract whenever you
server's IP address changes, and renew each year....
- Tyler
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