[cvsnt] Re: Why edit -x?

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Mon Oct 4 01:33:13 BST 2004


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Jerzy Kaczorowski wrote:
> the problems caused by typical exclusive locking. It's a great advantage and
> it should be exploited rather than adding new and completely unneccesary
> option to the edit command that effectively turns CVS into un-concurent
> versions system.

How?  It's just an option.  If you don't want to use it don't use it - 
no functionality has been removed.

> On a side note, it appears from your comments that the decision to add the
> exclusive edits is driven by the CVSNT going "commercial". It's very sad to
> see that going the wrong way so soon :(

I'm not sure what to make of that comment.  You really think that 
someone putting enormous amounts of time and money into the development 
of cvsnt isn't going to affect the future development?

There's barely a feature that's been added that hasn't had some 
discussion behind the scenes (and I still have veto over what goes in... 
  if I object strongly it doesn't happen).

That doesn't mean I'm going to cripple the future sales of the 
commercial side simply because of a bit of wording and about the 5 lines 
of code that comprise the -x option.

Tony



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