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#! rnews 2015 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 14:22:01 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <30C22309.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <87rayn8ion.fsf@interbev.mindspring.com> <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu> <MICHAELV.95Dec2230815@mindbender.headcandy.com> <49sql5$99f@pell.pell.chi.il.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29034 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:9723 comp.unix.advocacy:11667 comp.unix.misc:19790 Orc wrote: > not known for 'buggier and harder to maintain' software. SCCS is > an unqualified Good Thing(tm), but, regretfully, it's not necessary Just for the record, SCCS is most definitely NOT an "unqualified Good Thing(tm)" and, in point of fact, it sucks rocks. RCS is a far better alternative now, and CVS even better still. No, a good CASE tool does not guarantee code quality - that is true. All it does for you is help you to manage *complexity*. This frequently results in engineers producing better code, but your mileage may, of course, vary. In the FreeBSD Project, we find CVS to be indispensible in managing *multiple* developers converging on a single source tree. For Linus, this probably isn't an issue nor is it for any of the other one man band Linux operations who aren't *developing* so much as they are *packaging* the bits. There's a big difference between the tools required for the guy who sells hot dogs and the factory that makes them. -- Jordan