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From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] lucio-
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:07:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020110110954.E69E419988@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

>>dump wins out over the SCCS/RCS/CVS per-application approaches by
>>including more of the environment: e.g. compiler, system includes.
>>(In practice, has this been a significant win at the Labs?)

it has been a boon to me/us, and often allows the source of a problem to be isolated more quickly
(often by eliminating the possibility of faults caused by changes elsewhere).  as well as obvious
system software, it also saves design notes, supporting documents, time logs, mail boxes, all automatically.
having all those, as well as compilers, host and target libraries, and system includes, have saved
me time.   time that's then squandered trying to wade through ./configure or config.h when importing things,
but that's another matter.



             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-10 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-10 11:07 forsyth [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-05  1:42 Russ Cox
2002-03-05  0:10 geoff
2002-03-05 17:07 ` Dan Cross
2002-03-11 10:05 ` Luis Fernandes
2002-01-10 15:31 rob pike
2002-01-10  1:36 okamoto
2002-01-10 13:52 ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-09  7:06 okamoto
2002-01-09  5:41 geoff
2002-01-09  5:08 Russ Cox
2002-01-09  5:32 ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-09  6:01   ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-10 10:37   ` Bruce Janson
2002-03-04 21:14     ` Richard Uhtenwoldt
2002-01-09  3:06 Russ Cox
2002-01-09  4:49 ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-09  4:52 ` Lucio De Re
2002-01-09 10:58   ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-09 16:01   ` Aharon Robbins
2002-01-09  1:04 okamoto
2002-01-08 18:01 Russ Cox

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