I can't remember where I read it, but I just pulled this from the wikipedia page: *Subversion* is an open source <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source>application for revision control <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control>. Also commonly referred to as *svn* or *SVN*, Subversion is designed specifically to be a modern replacement for CVS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System>and shares a number of the same key developers. I may be wrong, as could the wikipedia page. But I've read it in multiple places. Sorry I can't cite my sources better ; ) Kyle On 3/16/07, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> wrote:
"Kyle Hall" <kyle.m.hall@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] It was written by the same author as CVS to replace CVS and to address many issues CVS had. [...]
Sorry to doubt, but how do you figure that?
I see the CVS Authors list: http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/cvs/ccvs/AUTHORS?view=auto and the SVN committers list: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/COMMITTERS and didn't find any overlap among the core.
By coincidence, Google's profiting from personal data and the privacy implications was a featured item on yesterday's Newsnight on BBC TV. See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/6456023.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6453137.stm
Personally, I'm a bit concerned that moving koha.org to the US puts too many of our eggs under one government's foot (excuse the mixed metaphor), even without requiring developers to deal with the more malleable Google instead of FSF.
Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Webmaster/web developer, statistician, sysadmin, online shop maker, developer of koha, debian, gobo, gnustep, various mail and web s/w. Workers co-op @ Weston-super-Mare, Somerset http://www.ttllp.co.uk/
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