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> From: cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org > [mailto:cvsnt-bounces at cvsnt.org] On Behalf Of Arthur Barrett > Sent: Monday, 03 July, 2006 04:36 > > Congratulations to the CVS project - 20 year anniversary today! > > Dick Grune published the first version of the CVS versioning > system on the July 3, 1986 - and many talented individuals have > continued to contribute to the project for twenty years > ensuring it has become a very versatile basis for CM systems, > including our own CVSNT and CVS Suite. When I started using RCS for change control at IBM in 1989, three years after CVS first appeared, the people I worked with were just starting to make the transition from SCCS. RCS was still the Next Big Thing at a lot of organizations. Polytron's PVCS, essentially an RCS clone with some GUI front-end tooling (which may not have been in the first version; I didn't start using it until several years later), also came out in the late 1980s, but it ignored the CVS concurrent-change model in favor of the RCS lock-edit-commit one. I don't think I even heard of CVS until sometime in the mid 1990s. My point? SCM systems are relatively long-lived applications. Subversion certain has its fans, but I expect CVS has a long life ahead of it yet; and I, for one, haven't seen any compelling reason to switch. > For anyone interested - the original posting by Dick is > available in the Google Groups archive here: I love that CVS (though not the RCS engine) is actually included in the announcement itself, as a shar archive. Now there's an installer technology: no black boxes, trivial to inspect and fix if something goes wrong, and compact enough to send over a slow dial-up link. -- Michael Wojcik Principal Software Systems Developer, Micro Focus