Re: Will the ROOT CVS Repository be a "real" CVS Repository?

From: Valeri Fine (Faine) (fine@bnl.gov)
Date: Wed Aug 11 1999 - 20:36:57 MEST


> Will the ROOT CVS Repository be a "real" CVS Repository in which the
> history files of ROOT's source code are maintained by CVS?  Or, will it
> simply be a collection of source code that is periodically updated from
> a CMZ file?

   Did you pay attention ROOT is not UNIX application only ?
   Apart of CVS CMZ does work well for all supported platforms. If there are
   few  comments  from the Windows world on this list this doesn't mean
   there are few ROOT Windows users. At least by ROOT Web site statistics
   the number of the Windows redistribution was as large as that for Linux.

   Well I know the good real users are Linux users only ;-).

> If the model is case 2, then ROOT would continue to be developed by only
> a handful of developers who know CMZ.  The benefits of a more open
> development model, whereby talent from the ROOT community is utilized,
> is severely limited.  It is my hope that ROOT's move to CVS is case 1,
> which I've argued is in the best interest of ROOT, its developers and
> its users.

  As soon as you say how well the "native" Windows (not UNIX layer on the
  top of Windows) fit your model myself support this idea (But myself is
  happy with CMZ too).

             With my best regards,
                                                                       Valery



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