On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Ted Byers wrote:
Once I make the decision to upgrade my tools, I don't waste further time on the old ones.
Yup. In all the words, these are the ones that best describe the unavoidable difference. You can decide what tools you will use, you can afford to abandon old branches, we can't. That choice of tools use for us is largely determine by what phase of the various product lifecycles they on. Typically some of the team will be on the final stages of a release cycle, I'm _never_ permitted to even touch their toolset. Some of the team will be cutting new code for a future release. I will be feeding them the latest distro and toolchain. Some of those guys will be pulled back to fix bugs on and do patch releases on older releases of products. They must have the old toolset that can live on the latest distro, but can still build the old code. Sometimes up to two to three versions back! As I've said elsewhen in this forum... reality sucks. The guy in the latest Dr. Dobbs who is raving about the concept of virtualization understands exactly where I'm at! http://drdobbs.com/development-tools/205917147 John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@xxxxxxxxxx New Zealand
