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- From: geoff@flash.bellcore.com (Geoffrey Clemm)
- Subject: ClearCase <was Re: Robust Config Mgmt system wanted for MSwindows&UNIX>
- In-Reply-To: rene@cadence.com's message of Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:38:48 GMT
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 09:50:48
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- In article <RENE.92Aug31152248@wizard.cadence.com> rene@cadence.com (Rene Churchill; x6266) writes:
- Anyhow, I do have to agree with the comment that ClearCase
- won't scale well to large environments. It would be perfect for my
- current project, which has about 1500 files and 500,000 lines of code.
- I don't belive that the current version of it could handle, say 5
- million lines of code. I know they are working on some multisite
- support for the next version of ClearCase, but I really don't know
- what form that will take.
-
- What is the basis for your belief that ClearCase does not scale to
- large (e.g. 5 million line) systems ? The source information can be
- partitioned into an arbitrarily large number of disk servers (with the
- constraint that all versions of a given file are clustered on a
- single server).
-
- I agree that the current version of ClearCase currently does not support
- distributed development that is not on a local network, but that question
- is orthogonal to that of system size. Also, I don't see any architectural
- impediments to providing a layer that supports non-local-network code
- development.
-
- This might go from a
- good tool to a great one, depending on what they do in the next couple
- of releases.
-
- What changes are you looking for ?
-
- Note: We have no relationship with ClearCase, other than being potential
- customers.
-
- Cheers,
-
- Geoff
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- geoff@bellcore.com
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