version control software

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Nelson H. F. Beebe writes:

 > My recommendation: avoid proprietary systems like the plague and pox
 > they are, and stick with open systems (wasn't that a major reason that
 > we adopted TeX 20 years ago?).

I agree with you in general, but TeX is an unfortunate example. People 
with large amounts of legacy data tied up in TeX turn out to have made 
rather a bad choice, since it is now impossible to get much that is
meaningful from these typesetting codes, which are only processed by a
single, weird, processor :-}

Sebastian