Re: [BK] upgrade will be needed

Sean
2005-02-16T17:03:41Z

On Wed, February 16, 2005 10:43 am, Olivier Galibert said:
> Think what you want of Larry, but SVN is nowhere near BK is term of
> capabilities (and neither is arch for he matter). It's only better
> compared to cvs, and then not by that much.
>
> SCM is hard and not sexy, I'm afraid.

This has nothing to do with Larry personally. The point is that some
people keep saying BK is better without stopping to think if the supposed
advantages are honestly needed. They come with a rather large cost of
reducing some people to second class participants and reducing the freedom
to use collected metadata. Since svn or arch could fill the role quite
nicely without these problems, it makes you wonder if the price of BK is
too high for whatever advantage it provides over these other choices.
Unfortunately the decision has already been made, so this is all academic.

Sean