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

[Pete Ryland]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 03:21:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> 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)

It was indeed Solaris that it was running on.  I never even knew they did a
version for Linux - they certainly didn't at that time.

BTW, no need to reply to me as well as the list; I'm on the list.

Pete
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