[p4] Emulate ClearCase (Web based development)

[daaku6-66@yahoo.com]

> 
> If I were you I'd push really hard for your team to have multiple
> test environments, i.e. 1 per development machine. Given that you are
> web based, it is surely not difficult to replicate most if not all of
> the dev environment to individual developer boxes? Are you running
> Apache or IIS or what?
>

We're using a fairly complex system where there's an `admin` interface,
and a `free` interface with multiple backends, parts of which are
shared though sync machines. We have search banks and multiple
databases. So until we figure out a good way to share those services
between multiple web-servers, we're stuck!

> 
> I have seen many shops over the years with just one or two shared
> development environments and when they switch their lives tend to
> become much easier. It is often just inertia as to why things are 
> being done this way (they don't realise there is a better way). 
> Sometimes licenses for a particular application make things a bit 
> expensive, but there are usually work arounds for this.
> 
> Robert
> 

I agree, it is mostly inertia - but until we change enough, I'm looking
for an temporary solution to mimic our ClearCase setup.


-daaku.