Re: Paraffin: Parallelism generics for Ada 2005

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"R. Tyler Croy" <tyler@linux.com> writes:

> I've heard a lot of things, but I don't think I've ever heard an
> argument against version control before!
>
> I personally don't care which kind of repository somebody uses, but
> I've found myself after very weary of the "just download this tarball"
> approach after years of finding interesting looking projects which
> have stagnated and become completely out of date that have no publicly
> visible source history (student or university projects are notoriously
> bad on this).
>
> I don't mean to get too far off-topic, to each their own, I just find
> it odd that one would go through the trouble of creating a SourceForge
> project just to distribute tarballs.

I completely agree with this.

Some sort of VCS is vital in any development, even if on one machine
only; and nowadays there are distributed VCSs which give even a
single-handed development the benefit of VC both locally (eg, while
disconnected from the network) and on a network host. [Not so say there
aren't other advantages.]

SourceForge supports Mercurial (which I like) and Git; others include
Monotone and Bazaar.