RE: cvs server with WSAD

[Fred Kulack <kulack@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you're going to really end up liking CVS with WSAD. I've never used
VAJava (I
just couldn't get past the interface) but I've been using WSAD and its CVS
support for perhaps
6 months now. Its really nice.

I recommend you get your local project setup first, then share the project
into CVS. That way, what ends up happening is that all of the WSAD
project information (classpaths, project type, etc) gets checked into CVS
too.
This will be a boon to all the other developers on your team (and to you
when
you want to delete the project locally, but check it out later to do some
work).

Example scenarios:

When you change code, you simply check out the entire project, and it
builds
immediately directly in WSAD. Change only the individual parts you're
working, on and
when you're ready to check stuff in, you right click, Team->Synchronize
outgoing changes.
A synchronize view will come up allowing you to look at outgoing changes
versus incoming
changes and manage any conflicts (pretty easy) for files that someone else
might have changed
then commit the changes.

You get the latest copy of the code by simply Right clicking on the
project, choosing
Replace with->Latest from repository.

When you add code requiring a classpath change, you simply import the jar
file
into your project, make the change, synchronize outgoing changes. The
changes to the
project settings including its classpath go into CVS too.
Boom. All other developers get the change when they next pull down new
code.

When you add changes requiringing a dependancy to another project, you
check each
project into CVS. The dependancy information is kept as part of the project
metadata, but
gets checked in also. Another developer that checks out both projects
simply compiles without
caring about whatever setup you did/changed.

There's a handful of nice comparison tools also.
Its very slick.



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  is used to thinking about. Software is something like a machine, and
  something like mathematics, and something like language, and
  something like thought, and art, and information...
  but software is not in fact any of those other things."
Bruce Sterling - The Hacker Crackdown

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