8 messages in com.perforce.perforce-user[p4] Client spec enhancement question...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Paul Mitchell | 04 Mar 2003 11:11 | |
| Jeff A. Bowles | 04 Mar 2003 12:04 | |
| Rick Cameron | 04 Mar 2003 13:31 | |
| Oren Shemesh | 04 Mar 2003 22:24 | |
| Andreas Fischer | 05 Mar 2003 00:15 | |
| wiv...@us.itmasters.com | 05 Mar 2003 07:09 | |
| Paul Mitchell | 07 Mar 2003 10:31 | |
| wiv...@us.itmasters.com | 07 Mar 2003 11:56 |
| Subject: | [p4] Client spec enhancement question... |
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| From: | Paul Mitchell (pmit...@ati.com) |
| Date: | 03/07/2003 10:31:27 AM |
| List: | com.perforce.perforce-user |
Thanks for all the feedback. It seems like there are quite a few sites where some sort of "view templating" would be welcome. For me the big realization came the other day, when I realized the amount of time our hardware developers waste monkeying with their client specs. It now seems obvious to me, that having each developer have a completely custom view is really wrong, and actually causes more problems then it solves...
-----Original Message----- From: wiv...@us.itmasters.com [mailto:wivey at us.itmasters.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 10:10 AM To: perforce-user at perforce.com Subject: RE: [p4] Client spec enhancement question...
Oren Shemesh <orens at p-cube.com>:
The major difference between what you want and the 'client -t' command it that you want changes to the template to affect existing clients, which is a way to get all developers using that template to follow some global change that is
taking place.
If such a template system were set up, what happens if the template changes to exclude files that were formerly within the client view? (Esp. if the files are checked out.) It seems to me either everyone takes the risk of suddenly losing access to files, or the have list functionality would need to grow rather complex to deal with it.
I think I might rather see a voluntary update system in which each user gets a warning that the master template they reference has changed and asks if they want to update their link (along with a list of what bad things might happen if they do). This would require versioning the template, but that's not a bad idea anyway. Maybe a client-side option could make such updates automatic on a client by client basis.-Wm
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