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  • From: Tony Smith <tony AT smee.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] perforce vs. others
  • Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:34:01 +0100

On Monday 14 June 2004 20:47, Eric Schabell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:23:26PM +0200, Maurizio Boriani wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > why use perforce (a proprietary software) for code versioning instead
> > of arch or cvs? Which advantages are there in using it (I never used it
> > before)?
> >
> > For what readed on www.perforce.com it doesn't seems to haa something
> > special better than others... instead, for less, it isn't free. Why not
> > switch to something else?
>
> Well, for starters you can imagine that we have several thousand spells,
> large amounts of which are moved, renamed or deleted at one time or
> another... that was my original push to use perforce (as previous
> Grimoire Lead).
>
> It all started on savannah (cvs) which were rather bad a fixing locked
> file problems... then some members of the developement team hosted our
> project on cvs (see comments above), worked pretty good for sorcery code
> but still headache for grimories. Problem was that developers left and
> dropped cvs support, so we eventually ended up by the good people of
> perforce for free.

Thanks to those who've spoken up on our behalf. For what it's worth, we have
5
or 6 boxes in the UK running SMGL now, and we're very happy with it. It's
worth noting that whilst the free license is provided by Perforce Software
Inc, the host machine is my own. From my personal point of view, I'm helping
folks who are helping me and that seems very much in the spirit of free
software.

Tony
(aka. tony at perforce.com)




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