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Comment by Sir_Cmpwn | Hacker News Reader

It seems like the very old projects are very set in their ways (unsurprisingly). I complained about ImageMagick's process a while ago to no avail: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=...

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Which is one of the reasons why http://www.graphicsmagick.org was started. You should check it out if you haven't already. Almost identical commands, much healthier dev environment.

Is using Subversion really so bad?

Until pretty recently tools like git, hg, bzr didn't exist. Now one of those is looking abandoned in its own right.

Switching repos and tools isn't trivial, and really if the tool is free software and works across common OSs, I really don't see the problem. DVCS doesn't have to work for everyone.

No, using subversion isn't that bad. It's the rest of ImageMagick's workflow that was bad. SVN was just the cherry on top.

Now that I have used git for a while, SVN makes me want to throw things. It's a turd. Whether you use git for dvcs or simple local versioning, it is all-around better. Unless you're just done learning new things. I understand that some people are done learning new things.

While your frustration is understandable, when approaching a new open source project, it seems like it might help to be a bit more tactful and understanding.

I think your criticism of svn is off the mark. But I agree that the work flow that you listed there is terrible.

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