[ILUG] memory leaks...

[John Allen]

Dave Neary wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, John P. Looney wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:38:01PM +0000, lbedford at wbtsystems.com mentioned:
> >  Why anyone would use Clearcase over CVS I don't know. Shudder.
>
> Proper labelling & versioning,

CVS has "Proper labelling & versioning"

> excellent tools,

CVS does not have "excellent tools", just sufficient.


> multi-site capability,

CVS defaults to "multi-site capability" (different to ClearCase)

Because of the way ClearCase works it needs this *FEATURE*

>
> export source trees over NFS automatically,

Dreadful idea, makes builds dog slow, clogs the shit out of the net
especially when you have 300+ programmers all building on ClearCase volumes.

> consistent file locking on

Can be set as default for CVS also.

>
> checkout, etc, etc, etc. CVS is OK for single-site source trees with a
> (relatively) small number of people with check-in permissions, but for
> bigger projects Clearcase is yer only man.
>

I'd be inclined to say the exact opposite.

>
> > Kate
>
> Dave.
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