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Re: outsider's perspective
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Donald Sharp |
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Re: outsider's perspective |
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Tue, 27 May 2003 14:24:50 -0400 |
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Have you looked at subversion? Or what about bitkeeper?
I'm pretty sure that subversion can handle directory versioning.
I don't know about bitkeeper as that I refuse to download the
source due to their restrictive liscensing agreement...
donald
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:50:02AM -0500, Phil R Lawrence wrote:
> Well, I want to say thank you to all who posted regarding my query regarding
> dir versioning. That was a heck of a discussion. My resulting perspective:
> CVS seems innapropriate for our real world needs, preferring instead to serve
> a "purer" versioning paradigm. (A paradigm which, by the way, seems too
> complex for me to easily understand.)
>
> To recap, I was looking for:
> - the complete history and versioning of every individual file
> - the ability to recreate dir structures, including hard and
> symbolic links
>
> These 2 things would have allowed me to checkout our whole ERP dir structure
> as of a given date. Sweet!
>
> Greg says to use the right tool for the right job. Well, I wish CVS were the
> right tool, because the two "right tools" I've read about have real problems!
>
> ClearCase:
> ClearCase costs a lot of money. I mean a *lot* of money. Now, my
> organization might pay for it, or they might not, I don't know. We are a
> University in the USA, so we do have money. But I guarantee most of this
> world would never in a million years be able to pay that sort of money. So
> while my org might get by, the rest of the world suffers for the lack of an
> open source solution.
>
> My own custom build tool, wrapped around CVS:
> Gimme a break. It's taken our ERP vendor a decade (more?) to evolve their
> current ... um... way of doing things. I'm pretty good at hacking and
> munging, but I am not prepared to try and automate all of the linking and the
> recreation of the other inconsistent results of their upgrade scripts upon
> CVS checkout. No, I need a tool that can simply capture the *results* of
> their way of doing things and leave it at that.
>
> In conclusion, I know I have little choice but to follow Greg's advice. I'll
> use CVS for my little perl modules, but I'll be sorry to report to my boss
> that CVS won't work for our ERP versioning project.
>
> Phil
>
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- outsider's perspective, Phil R Lawrence, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective,
Donald Sharp <=
- Re: outsider's perspective, Steve deRosier, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective, Steve deRosier, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective, Kaz Kylheku, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective, Larry Jones, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective, Steve deRosier, 2003/05/27
- Re: outsider's perspective, Greg A. Woods, 2003/05/28
- Re: outsider's perspective, Donald Sharp, 2003/05/27