[Python-Dev] CVS locks on SF

[Greg Stein]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>...
> > Note that Perl is maintained under (the commercial, alas) Perforce, which is
> > one of the few SCMs to take multi-developer multi-directory issues
> > seriously.
> 
> We tried Perforce at CNRI.  It's really neat, but somehow it was
> lacking some stuff we were used to and we never converted.
> 
> Note that Perforce is free for open source projects -- at least at the
> time it was.  (CNRI paid a license fee, but that was just an
> expression of CNRI's reluctance against free software. :-)
> 
> There's also bitkeeper.  It stayed in beta so long that we gave up
> (and they have a weird license) -- but it's out of beta since May 4:
> see http://www.bitkeeper.com/.  But there's no immediate download!
> You must sign up and they send you instructions in the mail...

And coming down the pipe (end of the year) is Subversion:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/