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arch's role

Posted Oct 11, 2006 21:47 UTC (Wed) by dark (guest, #8483)
In reply to: Version control for Linux (developerWorks) by bronson
Parent article: Version control for Linux (developerWorks)

I prefer to think of it this way: arch was very experimental and Tom Lord tried out a lot of new concepts. Some of these worked very well, others did not work very well. Arch inspired spinoff and successor projects took the parts that worked very well and did great things with them. Overall, the experiment was a great benefit.

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arch's role

Posted Oct 14, 2006 16:13 UTC (Sat) by kevinbsmith (guest, #4778) [Link]

I don't think the poster intended any insult of Tom or arch. Yes, arch was an extremely valuable project. Tom Lord is/was visionary, and his work was the critical building block that allowed the rest of the FLOSS distributed RCS tools to get started. But if you are about to create a new RCS repository today, very few people would (or should) choose arch.

I completely agree that bzr, darcs, mercurial, monotone, or perhaps even svk would have been a far better choice for that third slot in the review.