Ron -
You might want to spend a afternoon reading the cvs manual
that comes with the distribution. It answers all your questions
that you are asking....
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:48:33PM +0100, Frode Nilsen wrote:
> Ron Petersen wrote:
> >I am trying to find out if CVS can do the following:
> >
> >1. Does it support COBOL/370 and Assembler source code?
> I has no special support for such files, it just treat it as any other
> source code. CVS doesn't know of other file types than text and binary.
nor does it need it.
>
> >2. Are there any limitations to the number of developers that can
> > be making changes to a program concurrently?
> No.
Theoretically - no. Practically - yes. CVS starts to
spend a lot of time waiting for locks once you get a large number
of developers working on a large source tree.
>
> >3. Is there a mainframe interface to Panvalet?
> Not as I am aware of
>
> >4. Is there a mainframe build and compile component?
> ditto
It looks like you are looking cvs to do things it was never
designed to do. CVS is there to manage your source. It's not
here to build your system, you have to come up with your own system
for that.
donald
>
> >5. Can CVS do PC syntax checks of all of the different types of
> > supported source code?
> No, not directly. But you can set up CVS to run other programs to do this
> kind of tests during commit.
>
> >6. Is there an automatic merging of source code when several
> > developers (working in the same program) migrate their changes to
> > various stages in the testing life cycle (i.e. unit, system
> > and customer acceptance testing)? If merging of these program
> > changes can only be done manually, is there any limitations to the
> > number of versions which can be merged together?
> >
> CVS doesn't support configuration of a migration system. But you should be
> able to use branches to solve this.
> Merging between branches can be done automatically.
> Conflicts must be corrected/confirmed manually (as always).
>
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