[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku) wrote: >Tell the manager to shed his or her superstitions, and work with >the facts. The facts are: > >- Concurrent development works just fine. >- Your team already likes it. >- Strict locking does not prevent concurrency, it only reduces > it to a coarse granularity: coarse enough to interfere with > productivity, but not coarse enough to eradicate conflicts. > To eliminate conflicts, you have to lock the entire repository > so that only one developer at a time can do anything on the > software base as a whole.
Well said. May I add, Concurrency works best with good communication among the developers. Responsibility of certain sections of code is usually divvied among just a few people. Strict locking might hurt the need for good communication among a group. -- David Gravereaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> $ make war make: *** No rule to make target `war'. Stop. Try `love' instead. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs