RE: [plcs] SV: PLCSlib CVS or Subversion (UNCLASSIFIED)

["Colson, James O CIV USA AMC" <james.colson@us.army.mil>]

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All,

Apologies for not being in the original discussion at the PLCS-IF, so if I
say things that are already said, please excuse me.

LOGSA has used both CVS and SubVersion (SVN).  Here is our opinions.  CVS
was Old tech in 1999.  It is even older now.  While it is functional, it is
not user friendly and has limited capability.  SVN is much more user
friendly, and has greater capabilities.  To any developer user, it is a
welcomed improvement over CVS.  Migration from CVS to SVN was only about a
30 minute process.  We have used SVN for about 7 years.  LOGSA still uses it
in some processes.

Our Java development teams, no longer use SVN instead they prefer to use Git
or Mercurial.  There are clear advantages for remote users with these tools.
Mercurial is highly capable, but with greater capability comes additional
complexity.

Here is a nice article from last year, there are some small inaccuracies,
and later versions have improvements, but overall you get a general feel for
the products. 

http://www.timedoctor.com/biz3.0/git-mecurial-and-cvs-comparison-of-svn-soft
ware/

At a minimum, I would recommend moving to SVN.


Respectfully,

//s//

James O Colson
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US Army LOGSA
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-----Original Message-----
From: plcs@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:plcs@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf
Of mats.nilsson@fmv.se
Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 4:39 AM
To: rob.bodington@eurostep.com
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Subject: [plcs] SV: PLCSlib CVS or Subversion

Hi,

 

What changes are required on the user (e.g. my) side?

Change of software? Additional software?

 

To what extent is SSH a problem? How many have a problem?

I cannot install the required software (Protegé, Saxon, Ant, a.s.o.) inside
our corporate net anyway so I use a separate PC, which means that the
firewall is not an issue.

 

Regards,

  Mats

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Från: plcs@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:plcs@lists.oasis-open.org] För Rob
Bodington
Skickat: den 2 april 2012 09:59
Till: (plcs@lists.oasis-open.org)
Ämne: [plcs] PLCSlib CVS or Subversion

 

Hi

During the recent PLCS implementers forum and then the OASIS TC telecom, the
issue of software configuration management software used on PLCSlib came up.

In particular why CVS why not Subversion (SVN)?

 

The suggestion was that we should migrate to SVN principally because it will
work through Https and unlike CVS will not require the use of SSH. This
should therefore be more accessible through corporate firewalls. There are
other pros/cons of the two SCM systems, but this seemed to be the main
issue.

 

Does anyone have any strong objection to us migrating from CVS to SVN?

 

Regards
Rob

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