OTOH, I work for companies, and they really value their assets,
especially software assets. So they *want* centralized stuff, so they
can ensure they have consistent backups (in the U.S.A. there is a lot
of regulation under Sarbanes-Oxley that requires this stuff). Right
now we're using ClearCase, which I abhor because it's so
heavyweight...but it is centralized control.
And as for the workflow, svn plugins are "built in" (as in free beer!) to:
-Xcode
-Eclipse
-TextMate
-Mac OS X (via DAV)
-HTML browser
and for
-Windows (if I really MUST use it)
via a download/install. So I can usually view, edit, and commit files
(or my favorite svn feature, a set of files atomically) from wherever
I happen to be working.
On 5/29/07, Jules Bean
Doug Kirk wrote:
No offense to the darcs creators, but
1) Only current Haskellers use it; everyone else either uses Subversion or is migrating to it;
If that is true, then they have missed the point. DVC is a real win for most workflows.
The applicable alternatives to darcs are : bzr, git, mercurial, tla. They have different pros and cons which are discussed at length on various blogs.
svn just doesn't make the list; it's not a comparable project, because it's centralised. SVK is more plausible but since it is essentially a hack to implement decentralisation on top of centralisation, it has different design constraints than things designed from the bottom-up as decentralised.
Jules