Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: User survey suggestion: add CVS as a choice
Date: 2005-10-10 15:02:44
Message-ID: 20877.1128956564@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> writes:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:24:35PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
>> In either case, I think the handful of people who use cvs rule it out
>> as an answer, IMO.

> Is CVS usage really that low? I don't know, not having seen any
> activity logs.

... and we'll never find out, if we take surveys that exclude the
possibility.

I concur with Michael that pulling the head of a release branch might be
a perfectly sane way to build a production installation. What if you
need a bug fix that's in CVS but not yet appeared in any dot-release?

regards, tom lane

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