[p4] PVCS Anyone?

[David Weintraub]

Does anyone know anything about PVCS?

Serena software is talking to my company and wants to push PVCS Pro
because it handles builds and deployments.

The last time I used it, it was buggy, slow, used file locking,
non-atomic changes, and had rotten integration in Eclipse. The only
"good" feature is it had a rather primitive defect tracking system
built in. But, that was almost a decade ago.

I've scoured the Web for any information about PVCS and found none. I
know of no one who uses it. And there is nothing about its features
anywhere on the Internet. Heck, even the Wikipedia's Revision Control
Software Comparison page leaves off PVCS
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software>.

Anyone who has used it in the last couple of years and can give me a
quick feature rundown?

* Does it support Atomic Transactions?
* Is the Eclipse plugin a real plugin, or it only works with Windows?
* How is it speed wise compared to CVS or Subversion?
* How expensive is it?
* What does it mean it does "deployment"?
* How is its build management features?

Any information would be welcome.

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David Weintraub
qazwart at gmail.com