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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!cs.umd.edu!coopnews.coop.net!village.org!not-for-mail From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs FreeBSD Date: 3 Dec 1995 16:59:59 -0700 Organization: Qualcomm, Inc; Boulder Office Lines: 27 Message-ID: <49tdlv$p4v@rover.village.org> References: <489kuu$rbo@pelican.cs.ucla.edu> <49qa85$q80@agate.berkeley.edu> <MICHAELV.95Dec2230815@mindbender.headcandy.com> <49sql5$99f@pell.pell.chi.il.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:29880 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10142 comp.unix.advocacy:11994 comp.unix.misc:19979 In article <49sql5$99f@pell.pell.chi.il.us>, Orc <orc@pell.chi.il.us> wrote: > I don't know how Linus does internal version control, but there >are plenty of companies that don't use version control (or have got >Company Standards(tm) like DEC's CMS, which is worthless) that are >not known for 'buggier and harder to maintain' software. SCCS is >an unqualified Good Thing(tm), but, regretfully, it's not necessary >to use it to produce good reliable code. Having lived in both worlds, I must disagree with this last statement. When people are totally anal retentive about every last change they make being put in all the right places, then this could work. However, I've never met a group of engineers that were 100% successful at doing this 100% of the time. Even with source code control, however, you can have lots of things fall through the cracks. I've had lots of problems with Sun shipping a patch to OS x.y and then having the same bugs appear in x.y+1 and x.y+2 because the patch was generated from somebody's home directory and never checked back into the souce bases.... :-(. Good source code control, when used effectively, makes it much easier to produce quality software. Like all tools, it can be abused. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@village.org The web browser is the network.