Re: CVS Server for i5 to use with WDSC?

Adam Glauser skrev den 24-04-2008 15:11:

Another alternative is to find a hosting provider. Aaron Bartell
mentioned a Subversion hosting service that he particularly liked in his Subversion article in IBM Systems Mag http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/i5/february08/developer/19751p1.aspx?ht=bartell%20bartell%20bartell
or http://tinyurl.com/4jx6mt.

That may be an option depending on your needs.

My experience is that it is quite beneficial to have such a server in-house as network services tend to be down when you REALLY need them. A version control system is ALL your backups of ALL your source so if the server is down nothing is available to you. This may not be very nice if you need to go back to a specific source snapshot to support a customer and you cannot do so for a day or two.

Some are more reliable than others, e.g. Google which usually is up as opposed to SourceForge who previously have had a lot of problems.

My point is that your versioning control system is so important to your development - you basically marry and have kids - that great care should be taken to get it right the first time.

We use CVS and have for a very long time. We have considered migrating but are holding back simply because CVS happen to be well supported and we can live with not being able to rename files (while keeping the history). The history is so important since it tells you what has been done by whom when, and hopefully - if they wrote it down - why they did so.

Just my opinion on the matter :)