[ILUG] Seeking Alternatives

[David Neary]

Dunphy Richard-rdunph01 wrote:
> 
> A bit OT, but need to start somewhere....
> 
> We're in the process of looking at moving some development over from Solaris to Linux for a number of reasons. But in doing so we need to come up with an alternative development/test environment which would involve little change for the developers...
> 
> We're not sure of platform atm, maybe Sparc, PowerPC, or x86.
> 
> The following need alternative solutions as the vendors don't have (or have limited versions of) these products:

Sorry, don't know any of these.

> Not seeking an alternative for these, but looking for experience stories of these products on linux:
> Rational Clearcase

We use Clearcase here in work - and despite Kate's glowing endorsement,
I have to say that I like it. Works well on Linux, and saves you having
to mount views over NFS from Solaris, which we have had huge problems
with here. Does anyone, as a matter of interest, know what's wrong with
Linux's implementation of NFS? 

That said, CVS has been nice to me, apart from the fact that updating is
a pain. Better idea, IMHO, to let each developer create their own
branch, with check-ins, and merge back to the main branch periodically -
that way, when you merge back, your changes are (in the event of no
conflict) automatically visible to everyone else... just my opinion,
though.

> TIA
> RikD.

Dave.

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		Dave Neary,
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