Vincent Massol wrote:
...
> fail. Still, I'm pretty sure everyone is happy with having personal
> computers that can compile their code... Who would question this today? Is
> it bad?
Actually, many do both question it and consider it bad. In the old card
deck days, people spent much more time looking at their code, because
the edit-compile cycle was so expensive. When compilations become
dirt cheap, too many programmers fall into the "It compiled and linked;
there can't be any bugs." mode. That's part of the advantage of
test driven development and pair programming - they force thought before
compilation.
> In a team of 10 persons collocated it's easy to build a common sense
> of build awareness and even make it a challenge to not let the build break.
At the last big company I worked, the policy was that anyone who
broke the build had to bring in a substantial quantity of bagels and
cream cheese the next morning. It worked surprisingly well to achieve
the goals you describe here.
> ... Example: StarTeam (SCM) does not show you
> the file you have added to a new directory. Thus when you commit, developers
> systematically forget those files as they do not appear in the StarTeam's
> view).
Subversion does, and it's free.
Gary
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