Distributing In-House Engineering Code?

caswelmo asks: "My company has recently moved from Solaris workstations to Windows workstations (Ohhh, the humanity). As an engineering focused company, we use our computers to run many in-house (command line) codes to analyze and design our products. We currently use NAS storage to store everything and use batch files and init scripts to run the correct codes over the network. This makes sure everyone is running the latest version. This also stinks. I know this isn't an original problem, so what are some other solutions for rolling out lots of simple codes like this?"

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[mnmn]

Ok so the Solaris 'code' is on a NAS server, and it is run remotely. You also mentioned you recently moved to Win32.

Hmmm. It couldnt have been more unclear. Solaris most frequently runs on sparc architectures. Surely the code must be sitting one place, executing on another machine, and somehow the windows machines grab hold of the results...

So depending on your REAL situation:

(1) Run apache on the solaris box and display results.

(2) Run the code on a terminal server machine (Windows2000 terminal services or X11)

(3) Use rsync or the windows equivalent to redistribute code to all machines

(4) Use CVS

(5) Recompile the code for win32.

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