RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, July 13, 2001 at 11:15:59 (+1000), Sven Dowideit wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: How well does CVS handle other types of data?
>
>       you are about the only person i have ever met who would argue that
> non-mergable files are not source files it they are used to build something.

I don't think that's my argument at all.

> what gives?
> 
> i think your analogy is _very_ flawed ...

All analogies are lacking in substance, by definition!  They are really
only imagery to be used to illustrate a point.  If my analogy didn't
work for you then from your point of view it's obviously a flawed analogy.

> cvs is mor elike a delivery system for source objects .. the compiler might
> be the hammer and screwdriver (and other tools) and so on...

Well, maybe.  The thing that's missing here is the configuration
management portion -- i.e. that part of the whole SCM process that
defines what revisions and variants of source components, and what
tools, are to be used to build the resulting product(s).

CVS is not, by itself, a configuration management system any more than
it is a build system.  It does have several very important features that
allow it to facilitate CM though...

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