2/10 Is clearcase much superior over CVS? I've never used clearcase
before, only cvs and sourcesafe. I need it for binary files
only. Does the commercial product offer compelling value?
Thanks, --williamc
\_ Clearcase is really ment for the thousand person development
team with multiple concurrent branches of development on
several architectures, etc. It works pretty well if you can
throw lots of big iron at it and you have an army of
sysadmins to keep it happy.
There are certains things I liked about it (versioned
objects, views) but if you are a 1-50 person group CC is
overkill.
\_ if you need an army of sysadmins to keep a single clearcase
system happy you need new sysadmins. --sysadmin
\_ not neccesarily an army of sysadmins, but for a decent size
company with a few different vobs and plenty of views, you
will eventually need a build engineer as well and probably
a toolsmith (if not the same guy) just to keep clearcase
managable and happy and to keep the engineers from doing
very destructive things.
\_ While I suppose that a single system running
running the clearcase server might be enough
for a small shop, ever place I've seen it
each site had several clustered systems
running the vobs and doing replication and
such.
\_ ok, 2 sysadmins and a 3rd because someone will quit or
be sick sometimes.
\_ For a smaller project you might want to look at perforce instead of
clearcase. It gives you changelists, views, good branching support,
and a decent ui as well as powerful command line tools. Not to
mention it is pretty damn cheap.
\_ yes... it's better than cvs, and 20x better than vss
\_ $750 per for 1-20 licenses is cheap? ok, cheaper than $100k
for a dc or gazillion for magma. but then cvs is free and
works well enough for most stuff. |