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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
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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