Folks,
As much as I like CVS, it is not a full-blown configuration management
system, and a configuration management system is not a CASE tool.
I don't want to start a Holy War, but CVS is great for tracking changes at
the file and directory level, but it lacks built-in support for getting
"meta-data" on the changes, i.e., to answer queries like "what files were
changed for bugfix 17, when and by whom?" and "what bugfixes made it into
release 3.4?". Also, it has no explicit idea of a development cycle (coding,
unit test, integration, release, maintenance). Again, I *like* CVS, and it's
fine for small industrial projects, or even large open source projects, but
it's not a full configuration management tool.
Rational Rose, OTOH, *is* a CASE tool. That is, it allows one to draw
various UML diagrams, check their syntax, annotate the sematics, generate
code, etc. etc. But for educational purposes, I think the important thing to
get across is the importance of a formal notation, and a development
process, and for this Xfig (or Visio) is Good Enough (tm).
Just my 0.02 NIS.
Rony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shachar Shemesh
> Sent: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:07
> To: Lior Kesos
> Cc: Josh Roden; Linux-Il (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
>
>
> Lior Kesos wrote:
>
> > Shany Pozin wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>>We (Hadassah College - Computer Science) want to give
> >>>a course in "Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)"
> >>>and are looking for and open source solution instead of
> >>>purchasing Rational ClearCase.
> >>>I would appreciate anybody's suggestions.
> >>>
> >>>Josh Roden
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > Isn't clearcase simply a realy serious,mature and commercial CVS?
>
> I think that sentance is probably wrong on each and every claim it is
> making. ClearCase (or, more precisely, the rational product management
> suite) is much more than CVS. For example, it allows hard linking
> between the revision control and the bugs database.
> On the other hand, it is also not mature. I have seen at least one
> company where there was a migration from CVS to CC, and the result was a
> general uproar. The migration caused things, generally, to become
> slower, less intuative, and more difficult.
>
> As for serious - well, when someone had a problem of exeeding quota,
> where the system claimed that he takes 500MB in modified sources (i.e. -
> the system more or less claimed that he typed 500MB of sources), I find
> it hard to call that serious. I will agree that the system is
> commercial, though :-)
>
> > cvs is preinstalled or available in practically any linux distro.
> > http://www.cvshome.org/ for detailed information .
>
> Add to that bugzilla for change management, and your'e pretty much set
> to go.
>
> Shachar
>
> --
> Shachar Shemesh
> Open Source integration consultant
> Home page & resume - http://www.shemesh.biz/
>
>
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