All I do is clone the DDB as soon as a board's been sent for
fabrication. All subsequent work (with one exception) happens
on the new DDB.
The exception is the "cleaning up" of the schematic part fields
so that my BOM generation is correct - this usually gets done
after the board's been sent to fab.
Once this has been done, the DDB is made read-only at the Win2k
level.
Not as nice as an automated system, but it works... (Admittedly,
I don't have to deal with others ratting through my work - each
designer is responsible for their own boards).
John Haddy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: van de Werken, Matthew (DEM, PH)
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 28 June 2001 10:16 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: [PEDA] Revision Control
>
>
> On the subject of revision control:
>
> What do y'all use for revision control within Protel? At the
> moment we use a
> "manual" method, whereby each board is contained within 3 folders
> - archive,
> current, and experimental. It's left up to the designer/engineer
> to archive
> old stuff, move experimental into current (once verified), and
> copy current
> into experimental to make changes. Needless to say, this doesn't always
> happen...
>
> We have very short board life cycles (we're running a scientific
> experiment,
> the immediate electronic needs of which change pretty much weekly), so I'd
> like something that's more automated than what we use currently
> (especially
> for those who are more interested in designing than any of that
> namby-pamby
> revision control stuff - "what's that? the new board has an
> error? sorry, I
> overwrote the old version with the new one". Don't laugh - this
> happens here
> all the time...). We're lucky if a board lasts for six months in
> "current",
> if that matters at all. Any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
> Matthew van de Werken
> Electronics Engineer
> CSIRO Exploration & Mining - Gravity Group
> 1 Technology Court - Pullenvale - Qld - 4069
> ph: (07) 3327 4685 fax: (07) 3327 4455
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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