Re: Serena Dimension SCM

On Thursday 10 August 2006 02:59, Marcio Marchini wrote:
> 	Has anybody added support for the Serena Dimension SCM in Anthill?
>
> 	I have been asked about it, but I am not familiar with Serena Dimension
> http://www.serena.com/Products/dimensions/home.asp

I'm not, either. But being generally curious about version control systems, I 
went and had a look. The website and brochures are almost entirely in 
marketing/management speak and thus almost entirely devoid of solid 
information. However, it appears that the version control component on this 
lashup is actually PVCS, and Anthill has a PVCS adapter already.

I'd like to take this opportunity to proffer my sympathies if you are going to 
be stuck using PVCS. I've not had to use it myself, but I've not heard much 
good about it, and it's described capabilities make it look like a rather 
average VC tool for 1989.

> 	By the way, is there any tutorial on the right way to add support for a
> new SCM in AnthillOS?

No, but it's pretty easy. Getting the Subversion adapter working from a base 
of knowing nothing about the internals of Anthill took me no more than a 
couple of days, and a chunk of that was altering some Anthill internals to 
work with changeset-based VC in a sensible way.

Take at look at the repository adapters in Java source tree; you'll see that 
Anthill OS requires on a simple set of operations to be implemented.

> 	Also, would the Anthill team take & incorporate an implementation of a
> "Serena Dimension plugin" once it is developed?

Well, they cheerfully incorporated the Subversion adapter so I'd reckon they 
are receptive to new adapters.
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