RE: CVS and Visual Age for Java

[Chuck . Irvine]

Derek is correct. Another downside, though, is that VAJ's formatting of
the code isn't very good. As I recall, it removes all blank lines and
the indentation is poor. So, people are always tempted to reformat. We
migrated away from VAJ before the new version came out - the one
supporting JDK1.2. I think this version must be out by now. Perhaps the
formating has improved.

      -Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: derek.price [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 9:07 AM
To: derek.price; Chuck.Irvine
Cc: Info-Cvs; rdelaney
Subject: Re: CVS and Visual Age for Java


address@hidden wrote:

> One problem we experienced is that VAJ, upon extract to a CVS
workspace,
> would re-format the entire source file. This plays havac with CVS's
> concept of simultaneous editing of the same file by different
> developers, i.e. the probability of merge conflicts goes up
> dramatically. This could force you to adopt CVS's optional check-out
> mode - don't know what you call it.

If VAJ's reformatting is minimal after the first pass, checking
everything
out once and back in could mostly avoid this problem.

Derek

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