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RE: Moving to an alternate VCS
- From: "Bennett, Patrick" <Patrick dot Bennett at inin dot com>
- To: "Daniel Berlin" <dberlin at dberlin dot org>
- Cc: "Lars Segerlund" <lars dot segerlund at comsys dot se>,<gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:11:58 -0500
- Subject: RE: Moving to an alternate VCS
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Berlin [mailto:dberlin@dberlin.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2005 11:11 AM
> To: Bennett, Patrick
> Cc: Lars Segerlund; gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: RE: Moving to an alternate VCS
>
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:55 -0500, Bennett, Patrick wrote:
> > If GCC will never use anything but 'free' software, it's kind of
> > pointless to discuss pros/cons of other solutions, but it's easy
enough
> > to dig up information on the net if you're curious.
> >
> It will not use anything but free software.
>
> By the by, perforce is not a good solution when you want anonymous
> access, as the openwatcom people discovered (they now have anonymous
> read-only cvs instead)
So much for it being pointless to discuss the pros/cons, eh? I'll just
say that there are a number of ways of providing 'anonymous' access,
whether through p4ftp or one of the http variants.
If anybody wants to chat about Perforce, feel free to email me directly,
but I don't see the point in talking about it here since GCC will never
use it.
Patrick Bennett