[Info-vax] History of DECSET / CMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/29/2020 7:33 PM, Andrew Shaw wrote:
> I need to educate my colleagues behind the history of CMS which is
> what all our VMS development processes are built around (no surprise
> there) - because these processes have gradually morphed and matured
> over a period of some 20+ years, probably a lot longer.
> 
> I am being asked why we are not using git and as part of my answer I
> would like to provide some factual background about CMS' robust
> history.
> 
> I am guessing it started back in the VAX days, or was it even earlier
> than that? Was it always part of DECSET?

CMS existed and was part of the suite back in the late 1980's. I don't
know about earlier - I started with VMS around 1986.

CMS is pretty solid, but feature wise it is obsolete today.

Many projects outside of VMS went:

RCS--(25 years ago)-->CVS--(15 years ago)-->SVN--(5 years ago)-->Git

I believe CMS is slightly better than RCS, slightly behind CVS and
way behind SVN and Git.

If you have a working CMS environment then You are OK for now.

But for long term strategy you should start planning to
migrate.

Arne