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Steve
Joined: 17 Sep 2003
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Location: Thousand Oaks, CA
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 Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 12:49 am Post subject: Source control |
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I realize that this is project still in the birthing stage... has anyone thought about what source control system will be used? I like the idea of a CVS server, a-la sourceforge and the like. There are some good Windows clients available, as well as the standard *nix client.
This should probably be decided and the infrastructure put in place before the first line of code is written.
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I'm not a developer by trade, or by anything else, but working for a software development company which severly lacks any real form of source control, I have seen the problems that arise when a bunch of people are working on the same code without one...
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hmarq
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 6:24 am Post subject: |
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In it's infancy, the development team will never be big enough for this to be an issue ... there simply won't be 4 people working on the 'registration' page for example. And the code is separated from the markup and the goal is to make it completely CSS for presentation, so each page is potentially governed by 3 pages. The markup (XHTML), the code (PHP) and the style sheet (CSS); of the three the CSS is the only one that could have folks really stepping on each other as there should only be a couple (maybe only one) for the whole site, not each page.
Besides, have you ever *used* cvs for a web site? ... it isn't pretty, because in order for any testing to be done, either the person that checks out the tree has to mimic the entire environment, or has to put a bunch of nutty 'if' conditions to accomodate what server it's running on ... further, the database isn't accessible directly from the outside, so you have no data to work on SQL stuff.
I'm certain your heart/head is in the right place, but it'll be simple at the start; the developers will have accounts on the server and know where the source tree is. Besides, the area where conflict could occur, the CSS stuff, we don't even have one person looking to do that  |
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tc-rick
Joined: 17 Sep 2003
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Two phrases people wish they hadn't uttered:
- 64KB's should be enough for anybody
- [it] will never be big enough for this to be an issue
-Rick (25 years of post-college software development) |
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hmarq
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2003 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| tc-rick wrote: | Two phrases people wish they hadn't uttered:
- 64KB's should be enough for anybody
- [it] will never be big enough for this to be an issue
-Rick (25 years of post-college software development) |
OK, never was a bad word ... though it was qualified by '"in it's infancy" ... which I guess I've view as getting to version 1.0 (whatever that means).
Further, setting up cvs at a later date isn't precluded ... though I still think it has lot's more problems for web work, and at the end of the day, the developer group would still be controlled ... so if it gets to a point where we're stepping on each other, we'll find a way to fix it ... |
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marc
Joined: 01 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 1:12 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
just to let you know: i've set up a CVS Server and Repository for the German OpenCaching project. It's available via CVS over SSH (read/write - using individual username & password) or read-only via http://devel.eurocaching.org (will be moved to devel.opencaching.de shortly). If you're interested, i can also add a opencaching.org Repository for the US sourcode and stuff.
Just let me know 
Marc. |
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