Re: Aegis [Was: CVS migration to subversion?]

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 15:19, Bill Haneman wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 14:14, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > <quote who="Alan Cox">
> > 
> > > > Given that this can of worms has been opened, allow me to recommend the
> > > > use of Aegis, a 12 year old Free software configuration management
> > > > system that really blows the existing Free Software "source control"
> > > > systems right out of the water.
> > > 
> > > If its twelve years old why is no major project using it.
> > 
> > A round-about answer: "It's definitely a controversial choice for Free
> > Software projects." :-)
> 
> Only because discipline was out of fashion for a long time, I think. 
> Just because it's not already trendy doesn't mean it's not good.  One
> the face of it, it looks really super-fantas-terriffic; not sure what
> the actual user experience and interface are like, I haven't read the
> manual past the first few pages yet.  But I like the idea a lot; as
> opposed to 'subversion', which looks like moderate PITA for an even
> smaller gain, migration to Aegis looks like it would be a royal PITA
> with a huge payoff.  The second possibility seems more attractive to me,
> personally (big pain, huge gain).
> 
I also like aegis from what I've read, and, if I haven't understood
wrong, the docs say it works with existing UNIX utils, in which CVS/RCS
are mentioned. So it seems the migration might not be too bad.

> > 
> > > Also does it have non unix clients ? Thats essential for translators or
> > > people on the road sometimes
> 
> There's some stuff in the READMEs and docs that suggest that it does
> work under cygwin, but only in single-user mode.  Maybe I misread, but I
> got the impression non-Unix clients would be fine, but that an NT shared
> repository would not work so well.
> 
that's the same as with CVS last time I used it on windows. It just
works as a client or as a single-user, local server.

cheers