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On Wednesday 28 January 2004 1:21 am, Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> But if you have the impression, that it is not ready yet (although they are |
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> self-hosting for years), you could also take a look at Perforce |
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> (www.perforce.com). It is already in portage. Although it is commercial and |
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> closed source, it is free for OSS development and really mature even for |
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> big repos and available on all plattforms Gentoo is running. We used it in |
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> my last company for years. They have a really fast responding support and |
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> will answer any of your questions. They might be really interested to have |
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> an installation for Gentoo gaining also reputation. You may also contact |
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> the parrot developers and ask for their experiences. IMHO they are using |
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> Perforce for the new Perl development too. |
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I've been using Perforce for years, and have nothing but good things to say |
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about it. The only other commercial system that comes close is AccuRev. |
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I've discussed this before with Robin (robbat2) our CVS administrator, and he |
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made the excellent point that, for all its faults, CVS is proven to work with |
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trees as large as Portage. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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Beta packages for download http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/packages/ |
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Come and meet me in March 2004 http://www.phparch.com/cruise/ |
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Key fingerprint = 31FB 50D4 1F88 E227 F319 C549 0C2F 80BA F9AF C57C |
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