RE: Storing generated files

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Friday, August 23, 2002 at 07:32:36 (-0500), Brandon Brinkley wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Storing generated files
>
> example, CM Synergy will prevent developer-built products from contaminating
> clean work areas reserved for testing and release staging; CVS obviously has
> no such mechanism.

well, since CVS was explicitly designed to work with any or even with no
build system that's pretty much the case, yes.  :-)

> IMHO, tools (particularly third-party compilers, IDEs, and such) should be
> stored on CD in a software library...not versioned in any VC tool.  That is
> the line between consuming and producing software.

In the environment I work in _all_ of the tools are at least
customizable, if not already customized.  :-)

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