Re: Is CM important? (was: Use pragma INLINE or not?)

[europa.asd.contel.com!wlbr!lonex.radc.af.mil!hawksk@uunet.uu.net (Kennet h B. Hawks)]

In article <15645@encore.Encore.COM> jcallen@encore.Com (Jerry Callen) writes:
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>Real programmers make mistakes: syntactic errors, letter transpositions,
>even (horrors!) logic errors. I like to check in after every edit, so
>all those errors are visible. So what? If it "taxes" your CM system to
>have a lot of check-ins then you need a new CM system.
>
>Or would you rather see an afternoon of work go down the tubes because of
>a power flicker?
>
>-- Jerry Callen
>   jcallen@encore.com

Jerry - does your _formal_ CM really capture and baseline all your key strokes?
If so, WOW is big brother watching you!!!

There should be a vast difference between the formal CM baseline and the
day to day output within an individual developers domain.  What I was pointing
out was the "hacker" tends to bash things out, say "OK, boss I'm done." 
Put their output in the master library, and then 'discover' they forgot some- 
thing important.  When this happens frequently/consistantly I have to conclude
they are not doing a complete and thorough job.

The points you raise are indicative of the CM system itself, (both procedural
and tool capability), not of the need and proper application of formal CM
controls.  Incidently, on projects that I have seen each keystroke captured
into the formal CM system, the CM people soon outnumbered the developers
and management had to abandon the approach.  The power surge gotcha is 
handled by individual discipline, (how often do you save your work), and system
management, (how often does the system create a journal file for you).

Kenneth B. Hawks                                   |\   /|   "Fox Forever"
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