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Re: Serious problem with "Add" in TSVN 1.2.5

From: Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2005-10-25 11:55:18 CEST

Jan Normann Nielsen wrote:
> We cannot have TSVN telling that a new version is available, then
> install it and find out that it is broken and then have to downgrade it.
> It's a waste of time (and time is money where I work).

Automatically updating software is a PITA.

We had a domain server crash recently because it was (gah..) set to
automatically pull Windows updates from MS, and one of them caused a
blue screen on boot. Yes, the server even rebooted automatically
after it had pulled the update.

If you use TSVN in a corporate environment, you should make sure that
clients only update their software after someone has tested it in your
environment and signalled 'OK' for a release. That goes for *any*
software, not just TSVN.

I'm sorry that I can't offer any specific advice on how to accomplish
this - but I'm sure that there exists software that can help with
this. Probably also exists software that can perform a rollback if
you find a critical problem after deployment, which is bound to be
more useful in smaller companies.

Of course, if you have good suggestions about how TSVN can be improved
to work in a corporate environment, that's a Good Thing! I'm only
saying that you're probably not going to be a lot happier in the long
run if TSVN starts being released on 2 day intervals just because
corporate users find this or that bug particularly annoying in their
auto-updating environment.

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