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Sean McGinty

Store

I'm looking for learned opinions on this.

As a stand alone developer working in VW should I be storing my packages in a Store repository or just as parcels on my hard drive? Is there an advantage to using the versioning in Store even as a stand alone developer?

As you may have guessed I've been watching James Robertson's latest screencasts.

Thanks

Sean

Carl Gundel

Re: Store

I'd say one really big advantage to versioning when working alone is that it
helps when tracking down bugs. If I notice a bug and it isn't clear to me
what is causing it, I can go backwards in my versions until the problem
disappears. Then I know which version caused the bug and I can compare it
to the version before it. Very helpful.

Of course you can always switch to Store at any time if you decide you want
to take advantage of it.

-Carl Gundel, author of Liberty BASIC
http://www.libertybasic.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean McGinty" <[hidden email]>
To: "VWNC" <[hidden email]>
Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 10:43 AM
Subject: Store

> I'm looking for learned opinions on this.
>
> As a stand alone developer working in VW should I be storing my packages
in
> a Store repository or just as parcels on my hard drive? Is there an
> advantage to using the versioning in Store even as a stand alone
developer?
>
> As you may have guessed I've been watching James Robertson's latest
> screencasts.
>
> Thanks
>
> Sean
>

Giorgio Ferraris

R: Store

In reply to this post by Sean McGinty

Hi, Sean,

For what is my experience, I will not survive without an SCM system.

For what I can remember from the pre-store time, parcels were more difficult to maintain, at least for me. It’s more easy to load from store, and you can add comments, you can have versions, etc.

Have fun!

Giorgio

Da: Sean McGinty [mailto:[hidden email]]
Inviato: giovedì 23 novembre 2006 16.44
A: VWNC
Oggetto: Store

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Charles Adams

Re: Store

In reply to this post by Sean McGinty

Sean,

I find Store to help with development a great deal. It allows me to branch my development, try out different approaches and recover easily when I find myself off in the weeds.

Postgres is free and easy to install and maintain -- much easier now than even a few months ago. It also helps to run postgres when you are looking for cool things in the public repository. Replicating these is easy. [We built another replicating tool that allows you to select single versions of pundles to replicate. This is preferrable to bringing the entire version history over.]

----- Original Message -----

From: [hidden email]

To: [hidden email]

Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 9:43 AM

Subject: Store

I'm looking for learned opinions on this.

As a stand alone developer working in VW should I be storing my packages in a Store repository or just as parcels on my hard drive? Is there an advantage to using the versioning in Store even as a stand alone developer?

As you may have guessed I've been watching James Robertson's latest screencasts.

Thanks

Sean

Sean McGinty

Re: Store

Thanks to everyone for reponding to this. Charles' statement below pretty much summarizes what everyone has said and was kind of what my instinct was telling me. I've spent far too many years dealing with lack-of-version-control headaches in other languages.

Sean

On 11/26/06, Charles Adams <[hidden email]> wrote:

Sean,

I find Store to help with development a great deal.