Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Comparisons with Perforce

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Erik de Castro Lopo <address@hidden>

    > The other system they are looking at is Perforce which I know
    > nothing about. Is there anyone here that has used Perforce 
    > and can tell me the main advantages tla has over Perforce for
    > the centralised development these people will be doing? Is
    > there anything Perforce does better than Arch so I can do my
    > best to gloss over it? :-)

I think that the main advantages of Perforce are two-fold.

1) Older, so with more bells and whistles.

   Sure, it's core appears to be inferior to arch.   But,
   at present, it's more of an out-of-the-box solution
   than arch.

   For some shops, that's all you need to know.   Arch loses.
   I've observed start-ups (with very finite-in-time development
   priorities) pick Perforce for exactly this reason and no other.

   Does your development shop care where they are positioned in 3
   years?


2) Currently commercial -- you get a sales guy and a support line.

   We're working on that.  You can contact me off-list for my help in
   this regard.  You can always ask on the list or among list members
   for freelancers and the like.  Others have succesfully gotten
   professional attention by both of those techniques.

-t