All,

 I've been waiting for Configuration Management to be formally discussed.

The best thing to point to is Rational's ClearCase product which allows
CheckIn/Out, branching and merging, etc. Unfortunately it needs a Unix Box and
stores the S/W configuration in its own file system. And its expensive.

We would be well served if the leading lights took 2 or 3 months off and did an
OO Design of a similar system, possibly represented in Together (oi.com) which
could then be parceled out for coding. Anyway, its less effort in the long run
to get a good design methodology implemented and you need that for Zero Defect
Software anyway. Which is what Smalltalk is all about.

Or look at it this way: Where will the code be 5 years from now?

I have personally observed (in my former life) hundreds of millions of dollars
spent on software that was a great idea but had to be cancelled because the
number of bugs could not be reduced below 300. ( const nbugs = 300 )

No response necesssary.

Ted Creedon

Chris Reuter wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:53:27PM +0100, Stefan Matthias Aust wrote:
> > I'd like to raise the following question:
> >
> > Do we need some kind of source code registry other than the central swiki?
> [problems with the current state of things snipped]
>
> Well, we could start submitting stuff to freshmeat
> (www.freshmeat.net).  That way, there'd at least be a searchable
> index.  Not very Squeak-friendly but on the other hand, it's already
> there.
>
>                                 --Chris