# PVCS-Wishful Thinking **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [August 30, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978 "2006-08-30T18:42:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/1 "2006-08-30T18:42:18Z")
So, I’m going to ask this question knowing full well that I’m going to be grossly disappointed in the answer; however, I have to try. Has anyone within the sound of this post developed or heard anyone who has developed ruby tools to speak with Serena PVCS (Formerly, Merrant PVCS (Formerly, Intersolv PVCS))? There I asked it. Now I can be disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 6:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/2 "2006-08-30T18:55:41Z")
On 8/30/06, Erich T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > So, I’m going to ask this question knowing full well that I’m going to > be grossly disappointed in the answer; however, I have to try. > > Has anyone within the sound of this post developed or heard anyone who > has developed ruby tools to speak with Serena PVCS (Formerly, Merrant > PVCS (Formerly, Intersolv PVCS))? > > There I asked it. Now I can be disappointed. Eeeewww! Our company just switched to Change Synergy from Telelogic (not much better). Does good ol’ Poly-Vinyl Chloride System have a command line interface? If so, then you can just wrapper it with IO::popen and expect. Unfortunately, it has not been on my machine for a year or two now, and all memories have faded into blissful obscurity. Blessings, TwP ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 7:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/3 "2006-08-30T19:05:43Z")
On 8/30/06, Tim P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Eeeewww! Our company just switched to Change Synergy from Telelogic > (not much better). Wait, you migrated _to_ Change Synergy? Source control gets worse than that? ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/4 "2006-08-30T19:13:39Z")
> Source control gets worse than that? > There is nothing (I repeat: NOTHING) that is worse than PVCS. ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/5 "2006-08-30T19:43:49Z")
On 8/30/06, Richard C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On 8/30/06, Tim P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > Eeeewww! Our company just switched to Change Synergy from Telelogic > > (not much better). > > Wait, you migrated _to_ Change Synergy? > > Source control gets worse than that? Ahh yes, Synergy. I can’t say enough good things about it 😉 The little goup I work with gets to use subversion and Trac, though. We were grandfathered in before the big switch to Synergy took place. We were the lucky ones. TwP ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/6 "2006-08-30T22:44:11Z")
On 8/30/06, Erich T. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Source control gets worse than that? > > There is nothing (I repeat: NOTHING) that is worse than PVCS. ENDEVOR. Trust me. Nothing is worse than ENDEVOR. Not even PVCS. -austin ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/7 "2006-08-30T20:17:55Z")
> Has anyone within the sound of this post developed or heard > anyone who has developed ruby tools to speak with Serena PVCS > (Formerly, Merrant PVCS (Formerly, Intersolv PVCS))? > > There I asked it. Now I can be disappointed. I didn’t know people still used PVCS. Wow. You made my day. :\> We switched to Perforce from PVCS about 5 years ago and the day we switched was a great day indeed. It’s not what you wanted to hear, but I have a feeling you probably won’t find many other people using PVCS. ☹ Good luck! Patrick ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2006, 11:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/8 "2006-08-30T23:24:18Z")
On 8/30/06, Bennett, Patrick [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > We switched to Perforce from PVCS about 5 years ago and the day we > switched was a great day indeed. When we switched from Synergy to Subversion, the clouds broke, sun started to shine, and lambs and kittens started playing in the blooming meadows around our office … ---
**Author:** ![timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@timkar](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/timkar)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 5:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pvcs-wishful-thinking/66978/9 "2006-09-01T05:01:48Z")
We are currently using PVCS as well, with rumors of switching to Perforce sometime… In response to your question though PVCS has command line support so you could write something yourself around Ruby. Currently there isn’t anything since PVCS is slowly being phased out.