XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/10/2025 2:52 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 14:39:02 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 4/9/2025 7:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> This is why you have build systems.   
   >>   
   >> I started using the first IDE (interactive development environment) in   
   >> 1983 ??? with Turbo Pascal.  $49 IIRC.  It was a simply amazing way of   
   >> doing things.  Nowadays, Visual Studio comes closest to the Turbo Pascal   
   >> IDE but even it is not quite there.  Visual Studios lack of a decent   
   >> Fortran compiler sucks.   
   >   
   > IDEs tend to be limited in their build systems. They’re not flexible: they   
   > insist you build things their way.   
   >   
   >> I moved back to build systems on the Apollo Domain in 1989 using DSEE   
   >> but it was a downer compared to Turbo Pascal.  It did allow multiple   
   >> user development teams to work together though.  We only had a few   
   >> hallway fights on code conflicts, most were resolved by DSEE.   
   >   
   > Back in the day, we called them “CASE tools”, and they cost €€€.   
   Nowadays,   
   > they are just “developer tools”, and they are part of the standard   
   package   
   > repositories.   
   >   
   > The one thing Git does better than any other VCS is merging branches. No   
   > more hallway fights ...   
      
   One of my items on my long term plan is to move from CVSNT to Git.  I am   
   so tired of CVSNT's blowing up a code merge, usually comments.  I have   
   about 22,000 files being versioned at the moment.  We have been using   
   CVSNT since 1993 or so.  Some files have over 600+ versions so the move   
   will not be trivial.   
      
   There are only three of us software developers here so we do not have   
   many code merge problems.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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