Arch

Matts on 2003-07-16T12:51:25

Been playing a little bit with arch - a new version control system.

So far it looks very nice indeed. It's a little bit less intuitive than cvs, but overall it achieves everything ever so slightly more sanely. The intuitiveness is a big downside though, because most people don't need to move away from CVS here because they don't use it in ways that break CVS (we also have VSS users who use that even less aggressively).

Going to be a hard decision this. Ultimately I think it will be arch (free, hard to use) vs P4 (expensive, easy to use). I'd personally go with arch because it seems more applicable to other projects I work on (i.e. it is free, and thus I can always use it no matter where), whereas P4 will always have a price tag on it, even though they make arrangements for open source projects.

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Choose one, convert later

barries on 2003-07-16T15:41:51

Go ahead and choose one now, later we can write an arch backend for VCP to convert between it and p4 (etc.).

- Barrie

arch is cool...

samtregar on 2003-07-16T21:28:52

...but Tom Lord ain't. I'm afraid that using his software would eventually put me in personal contact with him. If his absurd behavior on various mailing-lists is any guide, that would be an unpleasant experience.

-sam

Re:arch is cool...

Matts on 2003-07-16T21:46:13

That's why I'm using ArX :-)

perforce price

ask on 2003-07-17T05:02:38

IIRC it's something like $600/year per license. I don't think you have to save much time on @#$%#%$'ed merges to get that back. :-)