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From: Jeff Kotula <jkotula@stratasys.com>
Subject: Separation of IF and Imp: process issue?
Date: 1997/08/28
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Mark Bennison wrote:

> Keeping a single file may well be 'easier' but it provides a
> configuration control nightmare. If you have anything but a small
> development team ( and by this I mean > 2 engineers ) then access to
> this
> single file becomes uncontrollable and there'll be several different
> versions of the same file that may ( or may not ) be divergent.

I'm curious is about this configuration control nightmare issue. It
seems
to me that if the engineering teams treat their components/modules as
real products and have controlled releases which the other teams can
then
integrate as circumstances allow, the only remaining issue is
coordinating
the configuration within relatively small teams.

Is this more of a project management or process issue than a language
issue? (I know there is some overlap, but depending on the problem it
may
be easier and more appropriate to solve with one mechanism or
another...)

jeff