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["David Bourgeois" <david@...>]

> > > Jean-Pierre: Any thoughts?
> Yes, my problem is I have a ** lot** of work, and currently I can't
> spend the necessary time to learn and use a revision control system.
> I hope it will change someday...

Hi all,

I'm just a lurk who's going to jump into kicad soon and for me that really 
counts if this project is held under a revision control system.

With very little effort, you will quickly be acquainted with the basic and 
most useful svn commands. It takes a bit of extra time to make commits and 
updates, mostly because it requires a bit of rigor to do them well. But 
that pays off nearly immediately as the project development improves in 
clarity and you soon won't be able to live without the logs and diffs, 
that will make you save a lot of time. You can then slowly learn new 
features as you feel the need for it.

I personally even use svn for projects I'm the only developer, that's a 
drug ;-) We have a community project here and the main developer comes 
from the windows world and has always been a solitary programmer. He's not 
used to SVN and its spirit and that makes it very hard for him and the 
community to work together.

btw, is there any plans to get a check-ins mailing-list? GMANE is also a 
great newsgroup interface to mailing lists and it would be interesting to 
use it too.

Anyway, thanks for what really looks like a great product and I'm going to 
give it a try soon.
David Bourgeois