Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

Horst von Brand
2005-02-17T21:16:22Z

"Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca> said:
> On Thu, February 17, 2005 11:55 am, Chris Friesen said:
> > If you look at the archives, there have been a *lot* of people saying
> > very much the same thing as you. I suspect people are getting tired of
> > giving the same responses all the time.
> >
> > Here is what Linus had to say about it a while back:
> >
> > If people in the open-source SCM community wake up and notice that
> > the current open-source SCM systems aren't cutting it, that's _good_.
> > But it's absolutely NOT an excuse to use them today. Sorry. I use
> > CVS at work, and I could never use it for Linux. I took a look at
> > subversion, and it doesn't even come close to what I wanted.
> >
> > And I personally refuse to use inferior tools because of ideology. In
> > fact, I will go as far as saying that making excuses for bad tools
> > due to ideology is _stupid_, and people who do that think with their
> > gonads, not their brains.

> Yes, I do remember that post. But i'm not arguing from an ideological
> basis; i'm arguing on practical grounds that the price of using BK is too
> high for its supposed benefits.

"Best tool for the job" certainly includes minutiae like "benefits" and
"price".

> I've not seen anyone else make that
> argument here on the list and it is something that Linus may not have
> given full consideration to. At least the comment that you quote gives
> no consideration to it at all.

It doesn't do so overtly, no. Doesn't mean it wasn't part of the equation.
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