On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:18:05 -0500, Doug Way <dway at mailcan.com> wrote:

> One nice thing about temporary pessimistic locking is that it tells you 
> when someone else is working on something.  It seems that this ought to 
> be possible with an optimistic system, if you were saving the method 
> versions in a central repository as Envy did.  Even though a class 
> wasn't "locked", it could tell you that so-and-so has been editing the 
> class.

One of the things I really like about Store and MC, and I hate about Envy,
is the *need* to be connected to the central repository while developing
code. If you only ever develop code on a desktop machine that you never
take anywhere, it wouldn't be as big a deal, but personally I use a laptop
for my main development machine (and have used laptops for this for the
past 7 years). Being able to pull the network plug and continue working is
essential to the style of development I do.

Later,
Jon

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