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* Yossi Kreinin <yossi.kreinin@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2006-12-22 15:15]: > AFAIK Microsoft projects are managed by a source control system > they won't sell, which makes me think they distribute > SourceSafe as one way to prevent competition. They use an older version of Perforce which they've made custom changes to in order to support their Lovecraftian proces, wherein there is a tree of repositories, purportedly about 4 levels deep on average, with developers checking in at the nodes, and periodic merges up and down the tree every couple of weeks (at different rates). The structure of the tree follows the structure of organisatorial units; which means that developers reporting to different managers for organisatorial or political reasons also check into different nodes and thus don't get to see each others' changes for weeks or months at a time, even if their work is closely related. Now you know why Vista is so late. What you don't know is how they even managed to ship it at all. > For instance, my sysadmin refers to Windows as "Must Die": > "This box runs Must Die 98". This is as close to physically > launching a terror attack on the infidels as words get. Must Die 98 is an exceedingly appropriate name for Must Die 98, in particular. > that's the program that hosts the Linux Kernel Source Code! It > Is The Best! It hasn't hosted the kernel source in, what, nearly two years now? And even when it did, all I ever heard was "it works better for the kernel than CVS and SVN", definitely not "it's the best!" Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>;There's stuff above here
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