From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Syd Polk To: lstabile@concord.com, sourcenav@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [presales+tim.w@redhat.com: Re: Source Navigator] Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:45:00 -0000 Message-id: <4.2.0.58.20001129184557.01b1c2e0@pop.cygnus.com> References: <200011291330.IAA27681@sandbox.concord.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00289.html This is an often-requested feature from sites with large amounts of source code. Right now, we don't support it very well. It is on the (long) list of things to address. At 08:30 AM 11/29/00 -0500, Larry Stabile wrote: >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. Well, although there is something labelled "ClearCase" in Source-Navigator, it never worked for us, and we believe that it never worked for the original developers. > > > > 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. We already scan it incrementally. There are performance problems with deleting records from the underlying database that makes it horribly slow. > > > > 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 ------- Syd Polk spolk@redhat.com Engineering Manager +1 415 777 9810 x 241 Red Hat, Inc.