On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:53:28PM -0500, Paul Lussier wrote:
> >How about our company which has developers from Hamburg to Cincinnati
> >to St. Paul to St. Diego to Bombay? All the developer sites have big
> >honking Solaris machines.
>
> *THIS* would be a good reason to have repo replication! :)
Sure.
>
> >> If you're users are all on PCs with Exceed, wouldn't it make more=20
> >> sense for them to use something like SVN where they can check out the=20
> >> code from the 'big Solaris/AIX/SGI servers' to their local disk, then=20
> >> check in to merge with others? They must have gobs of spare disk=20
> >> space on their local drives?
> >
> >How about compiling and debugging? We are not just editing text files.
>
> Understood, but the editing could be done locally in a wc, when you
> need to debug/compile, check it into a private branch, co that branch
> on the 'big honking Solaris machine' and compile/debug.
Have you ever tried it? Change edit/compile/debug cycle into
edit/checkin/change_terminal/checkout/compile/debug?
Especially when checkin/checkout can take a couple of minutes each?
> >> Did I miss something somewhere?
> >
> >It matters if they are 15 thin copies or 15 thick copies.
> >
> >The code for having a smart/fat worklocation can be ripped out. If you
> >need source "near you", you can create a slave repository "near you".
> >That might mean one slave per (development server group)/site.
>
> Oh, I think I see what you're saying. I thought you were suggesting
> having each developer clone the repo, then check out locally from
> their private repo. But I get the sense now, that you're saying each
> site would clone from a master, and that would reside on each sites
> 'big honking Solaris machine'. Each developer could then co from
> that. Is that what you're saying?
Yes. Since the wc is connected to the repository by a large pipe, drop
the pristine copy cache since it wastes more resources (space) than it
saves (time).
florin
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