Version control repository

Linden Lab doesn't yet provide live access to a central revision control repository for the viewer source code. However, this is being considered.

Choices to consider

• Subversion - default choice, and the obvious "safe" choice. Pros: familiar to us, used by a lot of people Cons: very centralized model; need to give people access to facilitate effective collaboration
• Mercurial - bleeding edge choice. Pros: Distributed model makes it easier for anyone to distribute patchsets off of the main codebase without needing a central host. Much easier to maintain a private branch. Cons: more complicated model, less familiar, much newer system (I've never used it, just received a recommendation)
• svk - a decentralized revision control system built on top of svn.
• Externally managed repository, via 3rd party site, such as sourceforge.net, Berlios.de, or similar.

Other systems can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software

See a discussion of this issue in the "Version control repository" discussion on SLDev as well as the talk page for this page