Jeremy Mordkoff wrote:
I second that. I support fedora 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 (and soon 12),
various
ubuntu releases, plus windows XP, Vista, and Win7, and Mac OS 10.4,
10.5. When one of them upgrades, it causes me to scramble to build
and
deploy upgrades to the others.
But working copies should really be disposable. As long as you keep
your
changes commited, if the format is a problem for a different client,
just delete
it and let that client build what it wants.
Our product also supports that variety of platforms. I request that
changes be tested on all platforms before the changes are committed.
That requires the engineer to either use a project branch or access a
view from multiple machines. Since some machines are shared, sometimes
views get inadvertently upgraded.
And you are not concerned that some uncommitted change in this working copy
might be the thing that makes all your tests pass? I like to make 'svn
checkout' or 'update' the only means to get the source to the testing platforms
to ensure that the test is of a reproducible state.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
