Could send this to Cuis list ?
Like what Juan have to said.



> On 22 Jul 2018, at 09:49, Nicolas Cellier <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Edgar,
> Yes, there are good reasons for not using .cs.
> .cs do not scale. Or history has to be purely linear, which does not happen in real world.
> Merging concurrent versions is impractical, or even impossible without a history of branches.
> I've used .cs for more than ten years in the 90s, and even with a team reduced to 3 persons, it was far from ideal!
> Some features would take time to implement, and inevitably lead to conflicts.
> We finally had to put version history in method/class comments (author+timestamp+reason of change).
> A poor man source code versionning that bloated the source code with orthogonal information...
> 
> I separated UpdateStream in own package in 2013 for the purpose of removing it, but this is unfinished work...
> One has to check if there are not unique implementor sends leaking outside the package.
> 
> 2018-07-22 13:20 GMT+02:00 Edgar J. De Cleene <edgardec2005 at gmail.com <mailto:edgardec2005 at gmail.com>>:
> I wish we have .cs as in old days , but some people like using clumsy tools.
> So if we do not use .cs anymore why have UpdateStreamDownloader and related
> to lo download .cs from server ?
> 
> 
> Edgar
> @morplenauta
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