[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[John Reagan]

On Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 3:23:49 PM UTC-4, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> 
> Particularly if you're working remotely and with a development team 
> actively making changes, a DVCS gets rid of more than a little of the 
> drudge work of coordinating the source code pool.   Subversion (SVN) 
> and DECset CMS and such are certainly good VCS tools, but they're a 
> slog to use when you're doing parallel development work and 
> particularly when you're working — as many projects do — off to the 
> side and away from centralized build servers and mechanisms, or when 
> you're trying to incorporate changes from others that are underway in 
> parallel.
> 

We used Subversion extensively with open64.net and NonStop.  We did parallel and off-to-the-side work.  Once we had a good workflow, it was fine but you had to be careful.

LLVM currently uses Subversion (with a git mirror).  Most folks use git locally while LLVM hosts their own Subversion repository.  There is talk under way for LLVM to switch to git (there are some Mercurial fans as well).  The fact that you can use github (and others) to get hosting is also a benefit for the LLVM Foundation not having to spend for their own server.

We're using git on OpenVMS for our LLVM source code control.