We are planning to move a team from CVS to RTC SCM.

The team maintains C code under CVS and primaily work in commandline fashion. They regulaly develope and build their product on the fllowing platforms:
redhat linux advanced server 3.0 - i686
suse linux 9.0 - i686
solaris 27
aix 51
hpux itanium 11i v2
hpux pa risc 11.00
Windows 2003

Their daily development and build activities are tightly tied with CVS installed and configured on all dev and build boxes they work on.

I guess my first question is do I have RTC commandline interface availble on all the platforms listed above to create a development and build environment similar to what they have now with CVS?

There is a commandline interface for RTC *but* it is not supported on all the platforms you list. You may want to check the latest supported platforms.

However, you should be able to run on these platforms, you need to make sure you can get the right Java version to run on the platform.

It is probably worth looking at what else RTC does, that may make the whole process of your dev and builds more efficient.

anthony

There is a commandline interface for RTC *but* it is not supported on all the platforms you list. You may want to check the latest supported platforms.

However, you should be able to run on these platforms, you need to make sure you can get the right Java version to run on the platform.

It is probably worth looking at what else RTC does, that may make the whole process of your dev and builds more efficient.

anthony

Thanks, Anthony,

I noticed that the RTC server release 2.0.0.2 for Enerprise has covered platforms like Aix, Solaris, etc.

I could be wrong but I think the commandline interface is with the RTC client which I don't see any platforms listed other than Windows and Linux.

Same is the Build Tool Kit.

So are you going to roll out RTC client for platforms other than Windows and Linux later or to use the commandline interface, I just need to install some server components on the platforms like AIX, Solaris and HP?

Thanks.

Hi

The commandline interface is part of the Eclipse client - so you would need to install the client on the machines (eg: HP-UX) that you plan to run the commandline from.

Do the developers work directly on those machines? Or do they just run the builds? I am sure you could get your build to run on say a Windows or Linux machine to grab the code from one machine, place to code on an NFS'ed directory and then invoke the build script on the remote machine.

Not sure I am helping much with these ideas - anyone else on the forum have any suggestions?

anthony