[ On Friday, November 30, 2001 at 16:11:07 (-0500), Austin Ziegler wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Wanted: cvs update -d <modulename> > > Which doesn't help if you have a multi-platform and/or multi-tool system. > IDEs are good at what they do, and should integrate nicely with existing > version control policies and tools -- but the tools themselves shouldn't > make the task harder than necessary.
Unfortunately most IDE designers seem to have no clue about version control of any kind and they seem to have a keen knack for making the task of integrating with any normal file-based versioning tool almost infinitely harder. What's easy for an IDE seems to be fundamentally at conflict with what's easy for a traditional file-based version control tool (esp. one like CVS). On the other hand an IDE should, by it's very definition of being an "_Integrated_ Development _Environment_" should provide _integrated_ version control too. Idealy it should be flexible enough to implement a decent range of version control policies, but any integration with an external version control tool is necessarily going to require special effort, perhaps on both sides of the fence. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Planix, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Secrets of the Weird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs