[Gllug] Introduction (not really relevant to anything, just saying hello)

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:10:14PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 07:22:25PM +0100, Christian Smith wrote:
> > Averyone should avoid ClearCase like the plague, and not just 'cos it's
> > expensive. Dynamic views sound really good on paper, but in practice,
> > well, it's not a big win, especially when you require filesystem drivers
> > to implement it.
> 
> I just can't agree with that.  From a developer and change manager's point
> of view, I've found ClearCase to be one of the best products I've ever used.
> It's been four or five years since I last used it, so I'm not sure how
> stable it is now, but our sysadmins used to whinge about it a lot back then.

I know for a fact that ClearCase under Linux is complete crap when it
comes to stability & despite easily reproducable test cases which cause
kernel panics they've been unable to get their act together and fix it.
The Windows port is hampered by the fact they are trying to implement
UNIX filesystem module ontop of something that has no such concept. Solaris 
is the only platform on which its pretty good.

If your version control software isn't reliable in day-to-day basic use,
then the gain some whatever fancy features it provides is quickly cancelled 
out by lost productivity (not to mention lost code during the crashes)

Dan.
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