[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[David Froble]

lawrencedo99 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

My immediate response to this idea is, what if someone just needs to review 
something, not make changes?  Not being able to see the code might be a really 
bad idea.