Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Sharing a library between multiple developers

[Aaron Bentley]

Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
> In article <address@hidden>,
> Aaron Bentley  <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Julian T. J. Midgley wrote:
> >
> > > Are any problems likely to result from allowing many developers to
> > > share a single tla library? 
> >
> > You haven't said how developers are sharing the library.  
>
>
> A local directory on each of the servers that form part of the
> development cluster.

That shouldn't be a problem, but I haven't tried it, myself.

> (...it
> still isn't clear to me whether having a working copy on an NFS
> partition is a problem, if you are using a library (so have no
> pristines in your {arch} directory in the working copy) on the local
> disks of each of the machines from which you access the NFS working
> copy.)

The problems are with reference trees (pristines and revlibs).  If the 
reference tree isn't on NFS, but your working tree is on NFS, that will 
work.  If the device number changes, tla will have to work harder when 
computing changesets, but it won't do anything incorrect.

Aaron
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Aaron Bentley
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