[Pmwiki-users] Dev Q: About versioning

[Jonathan Scott Duff]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 02:36:39PM -0700, Steven Leite wrote:
> I'm looking for information about software versioning,
> eg.  How/Why/When, etc.. 

How?  Use software like CVS, Subversion, Arch, etc.
Why?  Because it's a really good idea!
When? As soon as possible.

> Any recommended reading? (eg. www links)

The question you didn't ask was "Which" though I guess that can be
implied by "etc." :-)

The de facto king of version control in the open source universe is CVS,
so http://www.cvshome.org/ is probably a good place to start. CVS has a
few technical problems that have bothered people for a while so there
are several projects that are vying to replace it. Arch is GNU's entry
in to the fray, but CVS's heir apparent is Subversion
http://subversion.tigris.org

-Scott
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Jonathan Scott Duff
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