[p4] Pseudo-Clearcase "wink-in" with Perforce

[Jeff A. Bowles]

At 10:11 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>  Has anyone attempted to provide DO "wink-in"-like capability with Perforce?

Background to people reading: ClearCase's "make" facility
has a way of saying "look, I'm compiling //depot/main/dir1/x.c#1,
has anyone already compiled it for my platform so I can just
grab the copy instead of compiling it myself?". (That's using
Perforce pathnames to get the idea across.)

I haven't seen anyone do this, although I've seen a few
companies label last night's build and put the resultant
binaries/build area on a file server so that people can
sync to the label and set their lib paths to link from last
night's builds as appropriate. (Yes, it's a bit of a trap if
things get out of sync.)

But that's about as close as I've seen. I would never
rely on such "borrowed object files" for a production
build for a release to another group/customer, but acknowledge
that when it works, if it's fast, it's kinda slick. (Never was that
fast to run the ClearCase "make" for non-trivial projects, at
least in my opinion...)

         -Jeff Bowles