version control software

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk> writes:

>> I wonder if we would be interested in using a version control system
>> for TeX Live? The commercial Perforce (see http://www.perforce.com)
>> give free licenses for people developing free software.

Why would we ever consider a platform-specific commercial system when
RCS and CVS have been freely available for years?  A version control
system is something that needs to run for many years.  Commercial
software invariably drops off the market, or is upgraded to new
incompatible versions.

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