Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:37:27 -0400 From: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> To: Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB camera Message-ID: <430CDA87.4000107@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <20050824222004.5503c8f9.molter@tin.it> References: <20050824094931.A9DB043D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <430C5F57.701753DB@fadesa.es> <20050824203324.02c34efa.molter@tin.it> <430CC6C3.7020800@elischer.org> <430CCB65.3050301@rcn.com> <1124912690.566.0.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> <430CD2D1.9040501@rcn.com> <20050824222004.5503c8f9.molter@tin.it>
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Marco Molteni wrote: > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:04:33 -0400 > Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> wrote: > > [..] > > >>Umm - thanks - I found that page via google. But that >>page doesn't tell me *what* it is - or why Julian checked >>code into it instead of FreeBSD... :) > > > it is a Software configuration management (SCM) or version control > system, like CVS or subversion. > > it is more powerful than CVS (makes some tasks easier to do), > and so some projects are done on the perforce tree and then > eventually merged into the fbsd CVS tree. > > Perforce is commercial but is free to use for some kinds > of usages like fbsd, check their site for details. Thanks for the info, Marco. Gary
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