harvest

Why is Harvest being purchased at all?

Does your work environment use Harvest SCM? I've used this now at two different locations and find it appalling. In one situation I wrote a conversion script so I could use CVS locally and then daily import changes to the Harvest system while I was sleeping. The corp was fanatic about using Harvest, despite 80% of the programmers crying ...

WiX(v3): Harvesting a .csproj with heat.exe in vs2008?

The Question Newly initiated into WiX, I researched and found that v3 uses a tool (heat.exe) to "harvest" information into WiX fragments. I have managed to stumble about and find information on this tool, but none of it seems up to date for the latest heat.exe. Either i am looking in the wrong location, or this is thinly documented. So...

Sync Subversion and Harvest repositories?

How would you integrate Subversion and CA Harvest if using Subversion to sync work across a team and Harvest as the enterprise system of record? An approach I'm investigating is creating a script that loads a SVN tag into Harvest, but am curious if anyone else has done something like this before or there is a better way to approach the ...

XML POST REST Request using Python

Does anyone have a simple example of sending an XML POST request to a RESTful API with Python? I am trying to use the urllib2 Python library to "create a new project" in the Harvest API, with no luck. The payload variable is a valid XML document that is a near copy/paste of their documentation (under the Create New Project heading) sho...

Multithreaded Downloading Through Proxies In Python

What would be the best library for multithreaded harvesting/downloading with multiple proxy support? I've looked at Tkinter, it looks good but there are so many, does anyone have a specific recommendation? Many thanks! ...

Compare Harvest to other source control systems?

From the top, "source control" seems like a bad way to describe CA Harvest; it's a deployment control system, and it's actually pretty good at just deploying code. I've found it to be lacking when doing source control tasks, though. If you've used Harvest; what did it do right? what couldn't it do? what did it do with a workaround so...