"Tal, Shachar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Easily doesn't mean a sysadmin for a day. Easily means not having to > invest considerable man-power into making cvs and diff and branches > and IDE integration and nightly building and whatnot work > together. YMMV for the definition of considerable.
Disclaimer: I have not used ClearCase myself. However, I have an impression that, for one reason or other every company that uses Clear Case also has a full time "software configuration" *team* whose purpose in life is making ClearCase work for the developers. This does not mean that ClearCase is bad, wrong, or anything. This just means that it probably fits someone's definition of "considerable man-power". At one company I worked for (about 15 developers) an internal effort was undertaken to write a system for hourly/nightly build of multiple versions of software kept in CVS, at least on two platforms. It took some effort (one person, I don't really remember how much time it took, maybe a week?), but it worked smoothly afterwards. Probably still works, years later - I don't know. Note also that the build system fit the particular development cycle and practices of the outfit - an out-of-the-box solution would not necessarily fit that. Now, consider this. Just a few days ago a friend, who is a "configuration manager" for a big and well-known unnamed company, complained informally that ClearCase (which has its own filesystem implemented by Rational as a binary only kernel module) does not co-exist well with that company's corporate standard kernel configuration. And they cannot do anything about it until the vendor (IBM in this case) fixes the problem. I surely hope the vendor will provide a solution in time (until the client's standard kernel changes). Again, this is not as much to criticize ClearCase as to point out that this is something a multibillion dollar company would surely deem "considerable". -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
