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 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

2001-03-15 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 o

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 b

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 mar

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Marty Pauley
s who use it) but I'm not sure about it - it seems too, um, > different. On the whole I think CVS is Good Enough, and I hate RCS. Aegis is more than version control, which is why we used it at BlackStar. We were going to go with CVS at one stage, but we realised that our main problem

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

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Leon Brocard
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 tonne of marketing arse. I've used Perforce previously,

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Dave Cross
At 16:17 12/03/2001, you 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 pr

Re: Version control

2001-03-12 Thread Greg McCarroll
* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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

Version control

2001-03-12 Thread David Cantrell
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. But there are alternatives. Does a