[Zope-Coders] Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: revising layout of ZODB3 checkout

[Jeremy Hylton]

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 12:25, Tres Seaver wrote:
> > This isn't my decision.  ZODB and Zope and Zope3 all share code, so
> > they'd need to be moved all at once.  If we were changing, there are a
> > bunch of SCM alternatives to consider, but I don't think that's relevant
> > for this list :-).
> 
> zope-coders, at least, is the mandatory list for people with checkin 
> privileges to cvs.zope.org;  if a discussion of SVN vs. CVS is off-topic 
> for that list, then I don't know where it would be on-topic.

Oh, right.  I forgot that I had cc'd zope-coders.  It's OT for zodb-dev,
so I dropped that list from the cc list.

> BTW, I have never heard any advocacy (on zope-coders) for another 
> alternative than SVN.

Here's an example of anti-SVN advocacy from Tom Lord, the author of
arch:
http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-February/025283.html

And here's a page with on overview of several candidates:
http://better-scm.berlios.de/

Jeremy