Paul Lussier <pll@lanminds.com> writes:
> In a message dated: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:53:44 CST
> Florin Iucha said:
>
> >> The fact that you can access a repository directly on local disk was a
> >> concession to a *much* less common use case: the poor student who
> >> just wants to use svn to privately version stuff in her home directory
> >> on some big unix machine on which she has no rights. Your use case is
> >> unusual too: it's not so common to have 15 developers all sharing a
> >> single disk.
> >
> >It is common at every UNIX shop I have worked.
> >All the developers have a PC for Office which also runs Exceed. All
> >the work is done on big Solaris/AIX/SGI servers.
>
> Why not just run Linux on the desktop and NFS mount the file system?
> It seems that would be a lot less of a hassle than dealing with
> Exceed! (cheaper too :)
I think missed the key phrase "for Office". It is rather common for
businesses to require that developers have the ability to deal with
Microsoft Office documents and such. The traditional solution is
exactly as Florin noted -- run Windows, and use Exceed to access your
dev and test machines, all of which have /home mounted from some other
machine over NFS.
The last company that sussman and I worked for had this same setup.
Of course, Ben eventually took a stand, and instead ran a FreeBSD box
with VMWare for his Windows-land compatibility (in this case, for
Lotus Notes). :-)
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Received on Tue Mar 11 21:20:36 2003