Re: Version control

2001-03-16 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Mar 12 21:45:34 2001, Jim Gillespie wrote: Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff with the file system. I've used it on AIX. -- Marty

Re: Version control

2001-03-15 Thread Jim Gillespie
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] * David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites with no useful documentation and a tonne of marketing arse.

Re: Version control

2001-03-15 Thread Roger Burton West
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: My main beef with CVS (and ClearCase) is that there doesn't seem to be any way to access the release string programatically - I can tag all my source as "FOO_R1-0" or whatever, but I can't tell from within the source that it has been

Re: Version control

2001-03-15 Thread Simon Cozens
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Use Perforce. It's very good. It took me quite a while to get the hang of ClearCase but I was growing to like it by the end of my

Re: Version control

2001-03-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:45:34PM -, Jim Gillespie wrote: Does ClearCase work with anything but Solaris? I was talking to my current boss and he reckons it needs a patched kernel in order to do funky stuff with the file system. I know it works with NT (yeah, OK). What's worrying is

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Andy Williams
On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Cantrell wrote: There's been a bit of discussion about version control on the IRC channel. Summary of discussion: CVS and RCS both suck, they just suck in different ways, and subversion is vapourware which doesn't even promise to overcome the problems in CVS/RCS.

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Marty Pauley
On Mon Mar 12 16:57:09 2001, Leon Brocard wrote: David Cantrell sent the following bits through the ether: But there are alternatives. Does anyone here have any comments on Perforce or Clearcase? Needless to say, both companies have crap websites with no useful documentation and a