Re: ada writing guide

[Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com>]

"Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com> writes:

> 
> 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.

CVS supports that model, too.

(But this is a separate issue -- neither CVS nor any other CM system
solves the editor-related bug we were talking about.)

- Bob