RE: Website development

[Atkinson, Chip]

That's kind of the conclusion I've reached.  I am starting to think that RCS
would be the way to go really.  



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Chambers [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 1:16 PM
> To: Derek R. Price
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: RE: Website development
> 
> 
> > > It sounded to me like we had multiple developers sharing one
> > CVS account or
> > > otherwise editing a CVS module checked out to one place on the
> > server, say
> > > "/home/http/cgi-bin".
> > >
> > > My point was, unless we can set up a "cgi-bin" for each
> > developer, CVS won't
> > > work well in this environment; developer A and B can try to
> > edit the same
> > > piece of code and overwrite each other's changes. It was
> > specified in the
> > > post that setting up different webservers for each developer
> > wasn't easy.
> >
> > Well, first of all, you could put each developer's 
> individual workspace in
> > subdirectories under the _same_ cgi-bin.  That should encourage
> > your developers
> > to make things easily reconfigurable anyhow.
> > Another possibility introduces an extra step for everybody, 
> but basically
> > allows concurrent development.  In that model, developers work in
> > their own
> > workspaces then copy files that need testing into the public area
> > or check them
> > in and have a checkin hook exporting the data into the test area.
> >  Then you
> > only have to worry about who's _testing_ a file at the same time
> > as you and not
> > who's _editing_ it.
> 
> It sounds like you're still thinking about the possibility of separate
> workspaces for each developer (under cgi-bin or wherever)... 
> I thought that
> was specifically what the poster couldn't do.
> 
> If it's at all possible to do that, it's the way to go. 
> Otherwise, CVS isn't
> the right tool for you, and you should switch to an 
> exclusive-lock model.
> 
> -Chris Chambers
> 
> 
> 
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