[ On Friday, August 4, 2000 at 18:10:20 (+0200), Guilhem BONNEFILLE wrote: ]
> Subject: Reserved checkout
>
> - Is there a configuration tool which have a such model ?
> - Url for more information ???
Since there are many ways to implement "centralised access", there can
be many tools that fit your needs. Please don't be blinded to tools
that can do what you need but which don't directly integrate a
client/server split within themselves. Rsync could be your friend!
http://rsync.samba.org/
There's also a very wide gap between the fully concurrent model of CVS
and a completely reserved checkout model. If you really do understand
the reason why you need/want reserved checkouts (you don't really give
any indication in your e-mail why this might be the case, and anyone
asking for distributed development tools usually needs at least some
form of concurrency whether they realise it or not!) you might find a
close match amongst one of the several tools that are more
middle-of-the-road:
I would recommend Aegis if you really need a freeware tool:
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis.html
BitKeeper might be your ticket if you can afford a non-free tool:
http://www.bitkeeper.com/
For fully reserved checkouts there's TCCS on the "free" side (at least I
think it's still mostly designed for the locking model):
http://www.oreilly.com/homepages/tccs/
There's also the freely available PRCS (and the new 2.0 beta of the
underlying Xdelta-based storage system (which uses the rsync algorithms)
even includes a client/server architecture!):
http://www.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/~jmacd/prcs.html
There are lots of commercially available tools that lean mostly to a
fully reserved checkout model, but I've never used any of them (at least
none newer than SCCS itself!) myself so I won't pretend to recommend any
one of them.
--
Greg A. Woods
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