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Interview with Tom Lord of Arch Revision System
comforteagle writes "Every revision control system has its supporters and detractors, but none is as polar as Arch. Either you hate it or think it is the best thing in revision control ever. Built more around what our beloved kernel hackers use (BK), Arch is definitely a departure from CVS and Subversion. I've interviewed Tom Lord, Arch's daddy, about the application, and he has some -ahem- interesting answers and opinions."
"Every revision control system has its supporters and detractors, but none is as polar as Arch. Either you hate it or think it is the best thing in revision control ever."
They forget those of us who have never heard of it before.
I'm probably at the karma cap. Mod up a funny troll instead, it lightens the mood
Interview with Tom, Lord of Arch Revision System
# cd /usr/srcr oot
# export CVSROOT=:pserver:anoncvs@cvs.gnuarch.org:/usr/cvs
# cvs login - the password is anoncvs.
# cvs checkout arch
This guy should go into politics! His brain-mouth cable has no filter on it. It'd be nice to hear politicians describe their colleagues' bills as "a horrible, horrible design based on a few very good ideas" or "clunky junk".
I'd love to hear his opinion on the vi/emacs debate... that'd get some heads rollin'!
Either you hate it or think it is the best thing in revision control ever.
I hate it! God damnit! What was wrong with CVS? (that's a rhetorical question) It was so easy to just cvs co and cvs up.
Then there's some non-intuitive system that everyon and their dog wants to use.
Bah.
Bah I say!
How can he say CVS is clunky junk?
I use it on my 486 SCO Unix machine and think it's the cat's meow.
Tom Lord sounds like he got his argumentation skills by watching Beavis and Butthead, reading JeffK, and getting into flame wars with trolls on /.
Q: What's wrong with Subversion?
A: It sucks.
Q: What's wrong with CVS?
A: It sucks.
Q: Can you be more specific about Subversion?
A: Yes. Subversion is teh suck. I realize that's a little inflamatory, so let me say that the sky is blue, dogs are hairy, and Subversion is TEH SUCK, fagg0t!!11
Q: Can you be more specific about CVS?
A: Yes, allow me to be more specific. It sux0rs. Hard. CVS is teh sux0r.
Q: What's good about Arch?
A: It rules. Also, I have a large penis. Fagg0t.
This isn't as much "normalization" as it is "don't take so many drugs when you're designing tables."
Article summary: every decision made in the development of Subversion is an obvious mistake and a total failure - the result of naive programmers daring to disagree with the "Lord" of revision control.
When given the chance to talk about versioning systems, he spends more time bad-mouthing the competition than
he does promoting his own solution. Did one of the Subversion guys "steal" his girlfriend or something?
He certainly comes across as someone suffering from Tourette Syndrome. I've been considering the possibility of being classified as a sufferer myself. That way I can "legitimately" shout obscenities at my boss in planning meetings.
You fail to realize that Tom Lord is a genius, and as such has no need for people skills.
Computer, Arch!
Damn.
DJB wrote a revision control system!
He's hampered more by the blind faith of other people in their own way of doing things, and their unwillingness to listen to anything new.
Whatever you say, Tom. *grin*
Dr Fish (who's ALWAYS right)
(Someone mod parent up--this is really Larry.)
No shit, really? What clued you in? The massive ego or the disregard for open source?