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 ...
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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...
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 ...
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...
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!
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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...