[Box Backup] Future development plan

Ben Summers boxbackup at fluffy.co.uk
Thu Aug 18 18:13:41 BST 2005


On 18 Aug 2005, at 16:19, Charles Lecklider wrote:

> Ben Summers wrote:
>
>>
>> As briefly discussed, I think we need to move to a more collaborative
>> development process to take the project forward properly.
>>
>> I propose:
>>
>> * Set up SVN repository. Import 0.09 + my minor modifications
>>
>
> Have you considered Perforce? Being an Open Source project Perforce  
> will
> give you a free licence (see
> <http://www.perforce.com/perforce/opensource-faq.html>), and without
> wishing to start a "my SCM is better than your SCM" war, IMHO it is
> better than SVN ;-)  If finding something to run Perforce on is an  
> issue
> I can do that here.

Would anyone really object if Perforce is used? The branch and merge  
functionality looks rather neat.

It is an amusing thought to use a closed source SCM on an open source  
project though...

Ben





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