Re:What configuration? (Score 1)

1. Because CVS is a very popular system being used currently for an "80 percent solution" for true configuration management. The user interface to OpenCM could have been designed to any paradigm, but why not use the most widely used (open source) system since a LOT of developers are already familiar with that? BTW, OpenCM only manages configurations, or sets of files. You can't (yet) grab only a single version of a single file unless it's the only member of a configuration. That's the whole point of CM, as previous posts have exhaustively pointed out.

2. Most large free software projects have "gotten away without it" because "it" hasn't been available! Again, one of the best (open source) solutions to true CM out there currently is CVS, and it's only an 80 percent CM solution! Ask _several_ CVS users what they don't like about CVS and you'll have a list of requirements for a true CM system!

3. ClearCase is a marvelous tool. (I'm not an expert at ClearCase, but I've used it.) Unfortunately, it costs more money than I have! However, don't you have to have network access to your ClearCase server (repository) in order to work with it? Wouldn't disconnected development be a wonderful addition? (It doesn't look like OpenCM actually supports that yet, but it sounds like it's in the works.)