[dev-context] Wishlist / Tracker

[Brooks Moses]

At 05:59 AM 5/30/2005, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>>A lot of people seem to be using Trac for this kind of stuff.  It even
>>interfaces with subversion (if that's the SCM you must use (there are a
>>lot better ones, but I guess subversion is the most windows-friendly at
>>the moment)).
>
>I believe subversion is the most 'cvs-user' friendly system, and it
>is widely supported by lots of software, but perhaps those are not the
>best arguments. Can you give me a pointer to something better?

Personally, I've been using subversion (and the TortoiseSVN Windows 
front-end) for about six months for my own projects, and have been very 
happy with it.  Part of my joy with it is because it's the first proper 
version-control software I've used (well, ok, I tried cvs once, but didn't 
get enough out of it to make it worth the bother), but it does work 
exceptionally well at doing what I need -- namely, providing a simple 
repository that I can use to synchronize working directories between 
various computers with a minimum of bother, allowing me to back up things 
with nearly zero trouble, and allowing me to occasionally revert things to 
previous versions.

As for setting it up: it's got two different options for running a 
repository server -- either running it as a standalone server, or 
integrating it with Apache as a web service.  The former is dead simple; 
install the program, run one command to set up a repository, run another to 
start the daemon.  The Apache integration appeared to me to be one of the 
things that looked difficult to me but is probably much easier for someone 
who knows how to run a web server.

- Brooks