[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[Bob Koehler]

In article <e2e9f10d-69c0-45b2-9e10-20d111b55592 at googlegroups.com>, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes:
> On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 8:30:04 AM UTC+12, Kerry Main wrote:
>> Q - perhaps I am really old school, but should not VCS systems have the
>> capability to prevent code from being updated (read-only) when it is 
>> checked out for update by someone else i.e. similar to document mgmt. 
>> strategies? 
> 
> After many years of experience with this in the real world, it was discovered to a be a very, very bad idea.

   After many years of experience with this in the real world, we found
   the problems with it were created by inmprper practices put in place
   by folks who don't know why we have electronic CM tools.