Hi,
the WmVCS package was introduced long way before Local Service Development was introduced.
The WmVCS package serves as a Runtime package like the ART for Adapters and will require at least one additional package (from only 3 available ones) for the VCS you want to use. Not all of them will work with Unix-like OSes, some will only work with Windows like the WmVSS package for VisualSourceSafe from Microsoft.
The recommended approach is using Local Service Development feature via Designer (using Eclipse-based VCS plugins) and then merge the code via Repository based Deployment to the central development instance for first compatibility and integration testing before deploying the code to QA and Prod.
This is more flexible as there are Eclipse plugins available for many more VCS systems then those 3 which were available for the WmVCS feature.
Regards,
Holger
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