From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Larry Stabile To: sourcenav@sources.redhat.com Subject: [presales+tim.w@redhat.com: Re: Source Navigator] Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 05:30:00 -0000 Message-id: <200011291330.IAA27681@sandbox.concord.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00286.html Is there anything you can tell me about the questions below? Thanks. Larry Stabile Concord Communications, Inc. 600 Nickerson Road Marlborough, MA 01752 lstabile@concord.com 508-303-4246 ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Sender: tim@redhat.com Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 06:54:56 -0800 Organization: Red Hat X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Source Navigator References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "tim.w" To: presales+lstabile+concord.com@redhat.com X-Mailgate-Version: Mailgate v1.3 Content-Length: 1520 > I tried Source Navigator 4.5.2 and it looks pretty good. > > We have a source base of 1M+ lines of C++ code, so it takes awhile to > create a project database. I would like to be able to operate in the > following way: > > 1. Make an initial source pass. > > 2. Schedule a nightly job to update the project database. > > 3. Allow developers to see this "master" project database > read-only from their desktop systems by accessing the shared > project database and source code. > > We use Clearcase as our source control system. > > The main question I have right now is whether the project database can > be updated incrementally -- i.e., by checking file modification times > or other methods. It would be expensive for us to scan the whole > source tree each night. > > Also, please comment on whether you think the above sharing > methodology is feasible. Note that I don't need a system right now > which can share a main database and incrementally update local > changes on developer's destktop machines. The main use of this will be > to give people a way to browse the general source structure, not as an > up-to-the-minute development tool. Larry, I have forwarded your concerns to the Source Navigator people. They can be contacted at... sourcenav@sources.redhat.com ...if you have any other questions about Source Navigator. Thank you, - -- Tim W. | "I don't care to belong to a club that Red Hat Presales | accepts people like me as members." | --Grocho Marx ------- End of forwarded message -------