Re: ada writing guide

["Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> 
> Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> 
> > No warnings are given, no backups are made. The old version is
> > over-written. Even for those who know the danger, this would be easy to
> > accidentally do.
> 
> This can't happen with systems like CVS where each user works on his
> private copy of the source files.  The master files are often not
> directly accessible.  Problem solved. ;)

When programming in the large or huge, every developer simply
can't have his own copy of the entire project. There just isn't
enough disk space available. Therefore, a divide and conquer
mentality is in order where various groups of developers
depend upon shared "releases" of the other groups. This is where
good configuration management tools diverge from the simple
domain of version and access control.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"