[os-infrastructure] Re: Model discussion boiled dry(er)

[Joe Abbate]

Hi Alex,

Alex Hanshaw wrote:
> svn
> 1) has poor merge capabilities.
>   

IMHO that is an understatement. AFAIK, svn has nothing comparable to 'p 
ineed -c nnnnnn'.

> 2) does not provide labels
>   

On this, we'll have to agree to disagree that svn tags != Piccolo labels.

> 3) It is readily available on linux distributions.
> 4) Provides all other capabilities we have in piccolo
>   

Have we fully mapped all the Piccolo capabilities and found an 
equivalent in svn?

> 5) Already accepted by the community
>   

It may depend on your definition of "community". Nowadays, many 
opensource projects are looking for distributed RCS like Git and Mercurial.

> piccolo
> 1) Needs LDAP and authentication mechanisms to be added.
> 2) Not known by the community.
>   

But its "descendant" (p4) is known.

> 3) Not available on linux distributions.
>   

It builds and works on Linux, so lack of availability is not a major point.

> 4) Has labels
> 6) Has great merge capabilities.
>   

Joe