Am 27.11.2004 um 18:32 schrieb Marcus Denker:
Am 27.11.2004 um 09:48 schrieb Blake:
-> We'll have at least 4-5 people working on the same application. One of the nightmares of the current environment is that it was not designed for collaborative work. (I confess also that STers disdain for files is not one I understand. Working in an image makes some things very convenient and other things very inconvenient.) I've read a lot of caveats regarding Monticello and I'm not quite sure how well it would work. Anyone with experience here? How will Croquet factor in, given that it's all about collaboration? (I can see certain elements of Croquet being very useful for working out bugs and brainstorming, but I don't know about source control.)
Monticello should be very good for managing the code of 4-5 developers. Much better then changesets.
Yes, we're using it now in a project of that size. MC is quite usable now. You might want to make many smaller packages without dependencies, otherwise merging is really slow, and you get a lot of useless versions even though only the prerequisites changed. Instead, we just load the newest version of each package, which works fine in a small team where we can immediately sort out any problems.
I posted a couple of enhancements for supporting this style of work to the MC list. In particular, packages are highlighted which have a newer version available in the repository. http://mail.wiresong.ca/pipermail/monticello/2004-November/000112.html
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