Thanks again, Noel. Appreciate your thoughts.
This is my first role as a cvs-type admin, so I'm slowly munging through just about every piece of documentation that I can get a hold of. Cheers, Paul --- Noel Yap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Paul Tomsic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what's the ideal way to deploy CVS in a > > web-development context using Apache/Tomcat. > > I've already given my opinion on this so I won't > elaborate more on it. > > > How would a web-based implementation of CVS be > > different than a software build type CVS > > implementation? > > IMHO, the difference is that developers need to > install their product into a development environment > (rather than using the built product straight out of > the working directory). > > > Noel adviced to not have a shared working > directory > > for different developers, but what if you simply > > need > > to change one minor thing on a JSP page, then save > > it > > and refresh the browser to see the change on a > > development machine? Would that entail a checkin > > then a commit, thus forcing all other developers > to > > update their working directories? > > As I said above, developers need to install into > their > environment to test out their changes. If they > checkin without testing, like in all other projects, > they risk broken builds, bugs, ... > > > Moreover, do all developers set up a working > > directory > > in their home directory, then a virtual server to > > point to that location, and when they're done w/ > > their > > "piece" of the site, do they commit it to the main > > trunk? > > Unless I'm missing something, yes. > > > Should all developers get a "branch" ? > > Since the task is more interesting than the > developers > who worked on it, I personally prefer task branches > over developer branches. Moreover, CVS doesn't > handle > seemlessly remerges onto the same branch as would > happen with developer branches. > > > Anyone have any experience deploying CVS for web > > implementations? > > I think the build and deploy process is independent > of > the source control system. > > Noel > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
