[DLSLUG-Discuss] Metadot - or Other Ideas

[Stephen A. Cochran]

CVS would be a horrible end-user solution for collaboration. A fair  
amount of developers can't even keep CVS straight for their use, and  
they are the user community that is best suited to arcane technical  
procedures.

It really comes down to what's needed. There are very few use cases  
where concurrent write access is needed. Things like WebDAV, most  
file sharing servers/protocols, etc will handle fine, assuming the  
applications involved aren't horribly stupid.

What gets very complex quickly is something that allows multiple  
write access to the file at once and does the correct thing. Then  
you're talking the overhead and sanity checking of a clustered file  
system. Most likely, that's more than this use case needs.

Steve Cochran

On Feb 9, 2007, at 9:30 PM, James Fogg wrote:

> use CVS if you can.