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Re: Harlequin 1.2 still available?
Note that, had I worked for IBM, the decision might have have
been different, because there is no preception that IBM is a
non-mainstream company that might go under at any time...
-----Original Message-----
From: Kim Barrett <kab@camellia.org>
To: Scott McKay <swm@mediaone.net>
Cc: info-dylan@ai.mit.edu <info-dylan@ai.mit.edu>
Date: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: Harlequin 1.2 still available?
>At 9:30 AM -0400 6/6/00, Scott McKay wrote:
>> >Apple Dylan actually did store all of the code in a database. There
>> >were no source files, just database views.
>>
>>FWIW, one reason Harlqn Dylan/Fun-O Dylan is implemented the
>>way it is, is that I became convinced of the wrongness of Apple's
>>approach in the "corporate world". If you had a large investment
>>in source code, would you rather (1) use the proprietary source
>>code database of some non-mainstream company, or (2) use a
>>widely used, well-debugged, standard system such as CVS?
>
>For what its worth, VisualAge uses a source code database approach. They
>provide a hook to use an external version control system, using a Microsoft
>API for doing that sort of thing, which is supported by such products as
>SourceSafe and ClearCase. (Unfortunately, CVS doesn't seem to support the
>use of this API, which has kept me from going to the effort of trying any
>of the VisualAge products myself, even though they look pretty spiffy.)
>