I haven't worked with ClearCase in quite a while but have done so at several different companies. Every source control system and build/configuration manager has its problems and I certainly had occasion to curse ClearCase from time to time, but in its (mild) defense I'll mention some things I recall admiring about it:
- I liked the way your (view of your) repository appeared as just a plain old filesystem hierarchy so you could operate on the files/ dirs therein with all the standard tools. We even kept the tool chains in ClearCase so we'd be sure to have all the correct compilers and stuff for recreating ancient builds. - I liked (what we used to call) The Wayback Machine aspect where you could easily fall back to whatever versions were current at any particular time - useful for quickly finding when something got b0rken. - I liked the ClearCase-aware make that could determine if (as was often the case) a given target already existed in somebody else's view and, if so, perform a "wink-in" instead of having to build it locally. On the other hand, anything but the most trivial deployment (in which case, why bother with CC?) requires a dedicated, savvy admin. Distributed development was difficult. And IIRC the customer service from Rational wasn't great... _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
