[presales+tim.w@redhat.com: Re: Source Navigator]

[Larry Stabile]

Is there anything you can tell me about the questions below? Thanks.

Larry Stabile
Concord Communications, Inc.
600 Nickerson Road
Marlborough, MA 01752
lstabile@concord.com
508-303-4246

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> I tried Source Navigator 4.5.2 and it looks pretty good.
> 
> We have a source base of 1M+ lines of C++ code, so it takes awhile to
> create a project database. I would like to be able to operate in the
> following way:
> 
>     1. Make an initial source pass.
> 
>     2. Schedule a nightly job to update the project database.
> 
>     3. Allow developers to see this "master" project database
>        read-only from their desktop systems by accessing the shared
>        project database and source code.
> 
> We use Clearcase as our source control system.
> 
> The main question I have right now is whether the project database can
> be updated incrementally -- i.e., by checking file modification times
> or other methods. It would be expensive for us to scan the whole
> source tree each night.
> 
> Also, please comment on whether you think the above sharing
> methodology is feasible. Note that I don't need a system right now
> which can share a main database and incrementally update local
> changes on developer's destktop machines. The main use of this will be
> to give people a way to browse the general source structure, not as an
> up-to-the-minute development tool.


Larry,

I have forwarded your concerns to the Source Navigator people. They can
be contacted at...

sourcenav@sources.redhat.com

...if you have any other questions about Source Navigator.

Thank you,

- -- 
Tim W.			| "I don't care to belong to a club that 
Red Hat Presales	| accepts people like me as members."
			| --Grocho Marx
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