[LLVMdev] Version Control Upgrade?

[Duraid Madina]

Misha Brukman wrote:
> OK, so let's say they exercise their right to "not renew a license",
> what's our fall-back?

Good question.

> If the repository is a binary proprietary format,
> (which I'm not sure if it is, please correct me if I'm wrong),

It's BerkeleyDB, so the database format is already a little standard, 
but you'll never have to worry about things at _that_ level because:

> how do we
> go back to CVS/SVN/Monotone/etc.?  Or are we up the proverbial creek?

If your license expires, Perforce doesn't fail, it just reverts to demo 
mode. All but two users will be able to login and do stuff, and 
(perhaps) most of the database will become read-only, but you'll always 
be able to read everything out of the database. You can rest assured 
Larry McV doesn't work at Perforce: there's no hostage-taking going on here.

	Duraid