Updating Working Environments

Introduction
SNiFF+ provides a powerful updating mechanism for your working environments that ensures that all members in your development team are working on the latest, most stable version of your software system.
This chapter covers the following topics

- Why working environments need to be updated
- What happens to projects and files in working environments during an update
- How to update working environments in SNiFF+
- How to update working environments from the Shell
- How to run unattended updates from the Shell

Assumptions made in this chapter

- Your team's Working Environments Administrator has already set up Make Support for your projects

Related SNiFF+ topics

- Configuration management and version control in SNiFF+ -- Version Control

sniffaccess (used to drive unattended working environment updates, see Sniffaccess .)
Abbreviations and shortcuts used in this chapter
RWE -- Repository Working Environment
SSWE -- Shared Source Working Environment
SOWE -- Shared Object Working Environment
PWE -- Private Working Environment
$SNIFF_DIR -- SNiFF+ installation directory