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John Peacock wrote: > Tony Hoyle wrote: >>> Isn't the Subversion project working on this (a database backend >>> for the Code Management system)? >>> >> AFAIK they're not using SQL or anything, just a different backend. > > Correct. The current version uses BerkeleyDB as a backend (which is > technically a SQL database, but only just barely ;~). Post 1.0 > (which is probably 3QTR 2003, BTW), there will be some effort to > support other backends, specifically MySQL and PostgreSQL. > > FWIW, the intro to Subversion at OSCON last week was standing room > only, so there is definitely a lot of people out there who are not > satisfied with CVS (of any stripe), and looking for something else. Here's the point of view of someone who won't be shifting, at least for a few years. We started off on Visual Source Safe. After a few months a relation commented to me that we should move to CVS because of instabilities in VSS. I did the research and put the case to my boss. Important arguments were that I had done a check of the VSS repository and found corruption, and that CVS has been around for a long time and a lot of people use it. Given that CVS is adequate, there's no way I can make a case for shifting to something that may have more bells and whistles, and may do more for us long term, but in the short term is a new project that I've only just heard of and doesn't have the reassuring long history of CVS -- Dr. Craig Graham, Software Engineer Advanced Analysis and Integration Limited, UK. http://www.aail.co.uk/