Re: [OTish] Version Control?

We felt the same way but once we went to CVS we never 
looked back and can not imagine going with out source 
control. It may seem like the web doesnt fit that paradigm 
but if you break your modules up properly it works like a 
champ.

We broke out into 'html','components', 
'Libs','external_tools','internal_tools','perlinstall'. 
This gave us good control over each different area.

For our development team its more about consistency then 
versioning. If you go all the way with it like we did you 
can give each developer a sandbox that they work in and 
CVS merges for you, it is a huge benefit. Its to the point 
now where you check out all the modules and run one 
script. That script builds all the perl dependancies, 
rebuilds your http daemon, rebuilds the proxies, 
configures the server for the platform its on based on 
hostname and installs all the relevant files. 

Every so often we bundle everything up into a tagged 
'Release' and send it on its way to production. This works 
really well. A case in point was when we did our I18N 
conversion. We had one version of the code that was being 
entirely hacked apart to accomodate our changes but we 
still had to actively support bug fixes on the release. 
Without CVS[insert favorite source system here] this would 
have been impossible.

So, without good CVS things like our I18N effort, our 
auto-install systems etc would have not been possible or 
been a LOT more painful. As it was we busted through it in 
record time.

John-

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 21:09:05 +0000
 Richard Clarke <ric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Does anyone in the list use any kind of version control 
> (e.g. CVS) for the perl/template codebase of their 
> website?
> Now that my code base is growing I feel the increasing 
> need to provide better version/backup control than my 
> current hourly crontab tar.
> I don't however feel that the organizational logic of a 
> websites code base fits well into the CVS paradigm. Am I 
> being to short sighted in this assumption?
> Does anyone have any recommended method? I don't use 
> version numbers at all? Does anyone?
>
> Richard.