On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:05:11PM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>...
> > Note that Perl is maintained under (the commercial, alas) Perforce, which is
> > one of the few SCMs to take multi-developer multi-directory issues
> > seriously.
>
> We tried Perforce at CNRI. It's really neat, but somehow it was
> lacking some stuff we were used to and we never converted.
>
> Note that Perforce is free for open source projects -- at least at the
> time it was. (CNRI paid a license fee, but that was just an
> expression of CNRI's reluctance against free software. :-)
>
> There's also bitkeeper. It stayed in beta so long that we gave up
> (and they have a weird license) -- but it's out of beta since May 4:
> see http://www.bitkeeper.com/. But there's no immediate download!
> You must sign up and they send you instructions in the mail...
And coming down the pipe (end of the year) is Subversion:
http://subversion.tigris.org/
Cheers,
-g
--
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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