forrestthewoodsHere is my best attempt to articulate why I believe all dependencies, including compiler toolchains, belong in version control.
https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/dependencies-belong-in-version-control/
Morten Hilker-Skaaning@forrestthewoods what about using SVN instead of git? If everyone is constantly syncing against the same server, what's the advantage of being distributed?
@morten_skaaning TBH I haven’t used SVN in 20 years. I’m not sure its modern feature set. It’s never really impressed me though.
Bartosz Taudul@forrestthewoods @morten_skaaning SVN was designed as a direct replacement for CVS, and included such novelties as tracking the state of the entire repository tree, rather than per-file checkouts, or branches that you could actually understand how to use.
Anyone who has used CVS is not laughing at the circus.
@wolfpld @forrestthewoods I can't tell whether irony or sarcasm is used here?
@morten_skaaning @forrestthewoods No sarcasm this time. The majority of open source projects were using CVS at the time, and switching to SVN was a huge quality-of-life improvement.
@morten_skaaning @forrestthewoods Well, I guess my sarcastic tone that you read was directed at how shitty CVS was.