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RE: AW: Multiple cvs users in one checkout area


From: Noel Yap
Subject: RE: AW: Multiple cvs users in one checkout area
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:24:52 -0700 (PDT)

--- Brandon Brinkley <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've worked on an Oracle Financials customization
> project that sounds very
> similar.  No single developer owned the database,
> but there were also two
> additional databases for integration testing and
> QA/UAT.  The private
> project approach was the choice of the developers
> and works fine for this
> type of project, but the "shared" approach would
> have worked equally well.

IMHO, ideally, developers should not be sharing any
resources.

For example, let's say developers are sharing a
database.  What happens if a developer drops a table,
or renames a column, or changes a stored proc?

Another example, let's say developers are sharing an
application server.  What happens if a developer
bounces or crashes the server?

The worst case is when developers share source, as the
original poster wanted.  What happens if multiple
developers vi the same file or temporily break the
build in some way?  Of course, the developer was
asking about SQL files, but similar problems exist: 
What happens if a developer renames a stored proc,
changes the arguments to one, or changes the type of a
column?

Of course, if there are only a few developers, the
problems from above may be tolerable.  OTOH, if
there's more than just a few developers, work starts
to become fighting amongst each other.

>From what I've seen, resolving the issues brought
about by shared resources can cost more than the disk
space saved by them.

Noel

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