Why not just have a local VMware image for developer unit testing? Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 31, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Michael Christensen <mich...@strib.dk> wrote: > > First of, let me thank all of you for your (quite lively) inputs. > > The discussion did spiral a bit out of control in a GIT vs SVN tussle, but I > understand and can respect that people have strong opinions as to which > systems they prefer. > > I also wholeheartedly agree, that there are certain advantages to be gained > by each developer having a working copy of the code on their local machines. > I would, however, contest the absoluteness of this as the only way to go. > > While it is true, that the CF Developer licensing does allow for each > developer to run a CF server locally without paying a license fee, the time > spent by the IT department setting up and supporting 50+ websites (plus our > backend/admin software) on each developer machine does come at a cost. > Add in the cost of additional licenses for 3rd party components (like > ImageGlue or ISAPI rewrite for example) and the cost of being able to run > code locally can add up quite quickly. > > For us at least, running on a shared codebase with 1 development server and > all code available via a webpath (usually mounted as a drive for convenience) > works quite well and has done so without major snafus for 10+ years. > > Is this an "oldschool approach"? Very much so. > Is it a good solution? Maybe not for every company, but it works for us. > > I understand, that our setup makes running version/source control very > difficult and it is a conclusion that I feared I might reach, when I posted > the question initially. > > I think that I may have to go back and have a long, hard think about how we > will proceed from here. > > If any of you, who are running a setup where each developer runs the code > locally, I would be very appreciative if you could give me 30 minutes to an > hour of your time, so I might pick your brain as to how you have gone about > getting this setup and how you maintain it (I think this is probably best > done over Skype). > > So once again, thank you guys so much for all your input :) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354184 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
