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From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: Email for Posterity
No. We have three change control systems: a home grown one called
HOPE, the open source CVS and a commercial one called Perforce.
Perforce is the better system. We did comparisons a while ago and it's
the one to go for. Far easier to use and maintain. See
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/pvcs.html
Programmers usually hate change control but, for multiple concurrent
users who are continually committing changes to a project, it's the
way to get things done. Each of the three CCSs feed our build
distribution system, which I also, umm, keep going.
CCSs are hard to grasp even when we try and explain it very very
slowly multiple times, particularly about trunk and branches. Trunk is
the main line of development, a series of consecutive changes. A
branch is another series of consecutive changes starting at a change
in the trunk or another branch. If you've gotten this far and a
tumbleweed hasn't just blown past you, maybe you'd like a job?
Roger
Got one thanks.(Job that is) Control systems engineer is I think the last title they gave it.
Started as a C programmer on 6 months contract seven and a half years ago and still there.
Hardware, software engineering, technical author and general help centre, that's me.
Earns a decent crust tho.
Roger
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