Re: Version 2/08

Nick van Eijndhoven (Nick@phys.uu.nl)
Mon, 08 Jun 1998 15:59:59 +0200

Pasha Murat wrote:
>
> Carlos Lacasta writes:
> >
> > I have problems with trees since the release of the new version. My
> > programs (working with the previous version) get stuck when setting the
> > addresses of the branches.
> >
> > Do we have to proceed now in a different way with trees ?
> >
> > Is version 2/07 still available somewhere for hp-10 aCC ?
> >
> > I always thought that one of the golden rules of software maintenance and
> > development was to never release a new version of anything on friday...
>
> Just an advice coming from CDF experience (I belive people in many
> other collaborations do exactly the same):
>
> when we install locally a new version of a software product we install it
> as 'new' and we never delete the version we used before - it becomes
> either 'current' or 'old'. This allows the developers to have some freedom
> and guarantees that things will not be screwed up completely in case of
> occasional mistake.
>
> On the other hand this problem points to that we all would be
> better off if the sources were kept under control of a code management system
> (i.e. CVS) in which case rebuilding of 2.00/07 would not be a problem.
>
> Regards, Pasha.

Hi Pasha,
We have a code management system (CMZ).
If you pick up the root version 2 source code .cmz file you should
have no problem in extracting version 2.00/07 instead of the default
2.00/08 just by specifying the required version number.
See CMZ docs for detailed info.

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