On 3/26/2012 4:37 AM, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
What is "far from ideal (if not horrible)" about the current situation with Boost and SVN ? Please be specific.
I think the discussions have shown that it's hard to be specific and convincing about this topic, but see the list of pros/cons I made in my original post and also the posts from Beman and Julian.
You won't find individual points where DCVS seem to really outperform/outfeature the classic CVS, but together as a whole it really makes a difference for a lot of people. I agree that "horrible" is probably too far streched, sorry for that... but I think the current situation frustrates people, and it eventually gets on their nerves.
This is my point about the move from a CVS like SVN to a DVCS like Git ( or Mercurial ). I really do not understand the necessity for it based on use cases which are causing people to feel that a change should be made. I do hear general reasons why some people are more comfortable with a DVCS but since switching is going to cause me to have to learn a new set of techniques for working with version control and Boost libraries, while I am already quite comfortable with the current SVN system and its capabilities, you can understand why I do not see the reason for having to make this change. Simply saying that X is better because of some general reasons, which do not apply IMO to actual usage. does not make me want to do something different in programming and programming tools.