He always has gr00vy toys.. Between him and Andrew... just give me their laptops for 1 day.. and i swear i'd walkaway with a goldmine of bookmarks / software / upcoming Macromedia release info...
Scott "Viktor Radnai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi all, > > During Geoff's presentation I've noticed a couple of folders called > 'CVS' lurking amongst his cfm files, so I decided to ask him about it. > I've got a surprisingly warm endorsement for CVS (Concurrent Version > System, http://www.cvshome.org/ ), which is for those of you who don't > know, an open source client-server based version management solution, > mainly used for collaborative software development. Basically the entire > Daemon team uses it and its capabilities sound pretty impressive. > > Geoff also suggested that I start a discussion / solicit opinions on > CVS.So I'd like to ask everyone if you're > - using CVS > - using something else instead; or > - not using anything; > and also how many developers are in your team. > > Just to repeat some of the arguments for CVS that Geoff told me: it even > makes sense if you're the only developer. It allows you to roll all your > code back to what it was n days ago, or roll back only selected files. > You can branch your code and have different versions; it allows others > to review your changes and roll them back (depending on permissions).If > two people work on the same file at the same time it will report the > conflict and show the changes to the file in both versions side-by-side. > You can instantly roll back your code from the alpha version you worked > on in the last two weeks to the version you have in production to track > down and fix a bug someone found in it. If you use it properly, the code > on the development server / CVS server be stable enough to do testing on > it all the time (almost like a staging server). Oh, and there are builds > of the server for different OSes, and there are a few different clients > to use with them (the Daemon team uses TortoiseCVS -- > http://www.tortoisecvs.org/ > And it's really stable and free and open source. Unfortunately it > doesn't make coffee yet but can turn the kettle on for you ;) > > If you have used CVS (or something similar) before these things may not > sound all that new and cool to you, but it is to me since I've newer > thought about using it. What do you guys use? > > Also those of you who work in a group, do you develop and test on your > local machine and then upload to a shared server? Or do you you just > work on the shared server? We currently just share out the code > directories on our shared dev server and just go for it. The only reason > we get away with it is because it's only two of us coding. So before we > implement CVS (I still have to sell the idea to Mark, who happens to be > my boss) I'd like to hear some opinions. > > Cheers > Vik > > > --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
