Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 20:30:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that
the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the
programming/compsci/compeng world was figuring out how to make it
possible for hundreds of people to work on the same code base without
stepping all over each other.
I'm not sure if I agree with that being his *only* contribution, but it
sure is a good one nonetheless.
I guess it depends on your definition of "notable". For the longest
time, he never use a vcs, and so *lots* of patches got lost.
He redeemed himself, though, when he decided to start using Bitkeeper,
right?
No doubt.
Unfortunately, "finally using a vcs in the 21st century" is *not* a
notable contribution to the world of software engineering.
I was trying to be sarcastic anyway, seeing how the Bitkeeper story
ended:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitkeeper#Zero-cost_BitKeeper_for_Linux_and_other_open_source_projects
I have never used a VCS before, but I have a question about them. I
just got a programming job again (after about 13 years). I hate to
admit, but it is on M$ using VB 6. The company uses Source Safe, which
has what I consider to be a really big flaw and I am hoping to verify
that the standard vcs's in linux manage this problem better.
This project contains over 50 classes, a similar number of forms, and
dozens of non-class modules. Obviously there are a lot of
interconnections between all of these files. The problem is this: When
you check out a file the system gives you a fresh, up-to-date copy of
the file, but tells you nothing about changes to other files that the
file checked out file is dependant on that my have changed. This means
there could easily be dozens of other files that have changes in them
that you actually need to update on your system before you will be able
to compile and run the program. You find out about these only when you
do try to run the program and get errors due to changed funtion
signatures, missing functions and simply changed funtionality within
existing funtions called from the checked out file but residing in other
files.
Please tell me that linux's vcs systems handle this better by keeping
track of file dependancies.
--
Marc Shapiro
No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow.
What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here.
Boom. Sooner or later ... boom!
- Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail
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