[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[David Froble]

Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <njnoq5$tjj$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>> The "D" in DVCS stands for distributed. If you have to wait for someone
>> else to finish with a file before you can work on it, you're doing the
>> opposite of distributed development and are defeating concurrency in
>> your development process. Too much locking increases contention in human
>> systems as well as software systems.
> 
>    Exactly the comment I was expecting.
> 
>    If you think locking means no concurrent development, you don't know
>    electronic CM systems very well.  Unlocked access is only one way to
>    achieve concurrency.
> 

This whole discussion about locking code seems to be unhelpful, if one considers 
it must be one or another.

As an example, in RMS one can read and lock a record for later update, and one 
can read regardless and cannot update.  Should not both of those concepts be in 
a code management system?

Or, am I not understanding the problem at all?