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[Paul Franz]

toni.arte at nokia.com wrote:
>> When I deployed Mercurial in my group at work I wrote a small script to do the necessary setup
>> required to work on a project. To join a project one just had to use 'catscm join <project>' 
>> ('cat' was the name of my group at that time). The script knew where to find our central repos 
>> and how to configure the hgrc stuff to match out standards.
>>
>> Peter
>>     
>
> Yes, I'm using this approach at the moment. The problem is that this again relies on the people, i.e. 
> you should not just run the package from selenic.com, but instead download some add-ons from the
> company web site. So it's not a technical, but rather a people issue again.
>
> I actually made shell script for Linux users to set up the defaults, including the username from 
> the LDAP server. For Windows it wasn't that simple, as I ended up with a very ugly-looking
> VBS script :-)
> --
> Toni
>
>
>   

But isn't this true for any development environment? I know at my job, a 
developer created a bunch of scripts to setup and maintain the 
development environment so that it was consistent between developers.


Paul Franz