FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: SCM

["Matthijs Hollemans" <matthijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Waldemar wrote:
> Should we implement our own SCM?

No. And here is why: The goal of Haiku is to build an operating system, not
SCM tools. I am sure building your own source code revisioning system is an
interesting and fun project, and I won't stop you from building one, but it
is not a task for the Haiku developers. It is just busywork that detracts us
from the real goal.

Jobs like these don't produce the code that we need for R1. They just drain
away valuable time and resources. And anything that doesn't bring us closer
to the goal of having a working clone of BeOS R5 is simply something that
shouldn't be done, no matter how fun it is.

CVS is not perfect, but it also doesn't slow us down that much. The time we
lose because of the quirks of CVS is infintely smaller than the time we gain
by building our own CVS replacement. From a business point-of-view -- and
Haiku, Inc is a business -- it just doesn't make any sense. (Disclaimer: I
don't speak for Haiku, Inc.)

-Matthijs