if we're swapping war stories back in 2005 I joined a well-known American credit card company and the DBAs didn't even use source control! They preferred to keep floppies of the code personally.
I too was not unhappy to leave. Rakesh On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected] > wrote: > Not with citigroup are you, by any chance? > > SCCS > files only allowed to be nested a single directory deep (due to the way > sccs was being abused) > other files in there listing directory contents > building via make! > make takes the single-dir structure and creates the correct deep-nested > package structure > naming conflicts rife > sccs lock conflicts even more so > > I was not unhappy to leave that role > > > On 24 April 2010 03:27, John Ament <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I've got a scarier thought for people - where I am, we still use SCCS >> for most things. The "Java" stuff gets to be in CVS or RCS because >> SCCS just doesn't work with it. >> >> I literally kid you not. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Java Posse" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail/google talk: [email protected] > wave: [email protected] > skype: kev.lee.wright > twitter: @thecoda > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
