Hey I am just saying that, this is the ideal solution! Of courser with the added bonus of backups etc that Duane mentioned, this should be looked at for all developers. It annoys me when a company wants things done cheaply! You didn't explain why it is not an option!!
Regards, Andrew Scott -----Original Message----- From: Toby Tremayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2001 14:37 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Source Controlled Web Development - help needed Thanks Andrew, the problem is however that we have absolutely no option of running spectra on each workstation... Toby ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Life is poetry, write it in your own words ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Toby Tremayne Architect / Developer Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep MercuryRed Lvl 9, 123 Queen st Melbourne VIC 3000 p: +61 3 9605 5035 m: +61 416 048 090 ICQ: 13107913 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DISCLAIMER - All errors and omissions excepted. 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If you have received this message in error, please notify Mercury Red immediately ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 1:13 PM Subject: RE: Source Controlled Web Development - help needed > Allaire do make recommendations in the KB articles! > > When I have done this it has always been wit Source Safe! > > Ideally you need to do something like this. > > 1) Source Repository Server > 2) Web Server > 3) Work Station for each user. > > Now the source repository doesn't need to be its own server, but it just > more convenient if it is! > > The web server is setup for developing and seeing the final picture of > the site, now each workstation should have a local copy of CF & Spectra > and when checking the files out they get stored locally and can be > manipulated until returned/checked in. > > This is based on the allaire recommendation that can be found in the KB > articles. > > > Regards, > Andrew Scott > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Toby Tremayne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 27 September 2001 12:53 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: OT: Source Controlled Web Development - help needed > > Apologies for the OT post, but I really need some input here... > > We're trying to set up a new dev/staging/production environment with > source > control. One of our major problems / decisions is based aorund the > development cycle and how it works with source control. Obviously the > maxim > "work locally, store globally" is the perfect ideal. When you're > talking > about something like C development this is simple - you just need a > local > compiler. But we're running CF and Spectra, and several of the > developer's > boxes are not capable of running local copies of spectra. > > I don't want a situation where I have to check out a file locally, edit > it > blind, check it back in again, somehow move it to a browseable directory > then refresh the page and see my changes. When I'm trying to debug > something that's going to be a nightmare. Especially if we use CVS > instead > of MS Source Safe (and we'd prefer to implement CVS), because then we > have > an extra client to deal with, thus more alt tabbing all over the place. > > So I'm trying to work out the best solutions - how to handle the serving > of > these pages, where to check out to,(working directories) etc. Can > anyone > lend some insight as to how their company does things, or how best they > might implement something? We can't do away with spectra as we have > several > large jobs requiring it, and we're pretty much stuck with not being able > to > run a local copy of spectra on everyone's box. > > any help at all would be appreciated... > > cheers > Toby > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Life is poetry, write it in your own words > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Toby Tremayne > Architect / Developer > Code Poet and Zen Master of the Heavy Sleep > MercuryRed > Lvl 9, 123 Queen st > Melbourne > VIC 3000 > p: +61 3 9605 5035 > m: +61 416 048 090 > ICQ: 13107913 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > DISCLAIMER - All errors and omissions excepted. This message contains > privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the > addressee named above. 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