RE: Versioning Packages

"Clemm, Geoff" <gclemm@rational.com> wrote:

> I agree with Tim's point about the negative result
> of having a feature called "checkout" when the CHECKOUT
> method actually appears in two features (the "checkout"
> feature and the "working resource" feature").  A more
> "accurate" name for the "checkout" feature would be
> "in-place-version-controlled-resource-checkout". I'm
> really not very fond of this extended name (:-) ...
> anyone have a better solution?
>
> One alternative that comes to mind is to fold the
> "checkout" option into the "workspace" option, but as
> I recall, there are folks that wanted to support the
> "in-place checkout" but did not want to support workspaces.
> Just to check, is there anyone out there that will be
> supporting "in-place checkout" but not workspaces?

I would like to see these options kept separate.

> Alternatively, if anyone can come up with a better name
> for the "in-place-version-controlled-resource-checkout"
> feature, that would be appreciated!

The 'in-place-' is superfluous.  Given that the feature is to check out a
vcr, it isn't going to get much shorter than
'version-controlled-resource-checkout':-|

Tim

Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2001 10:46:23 UTC