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I was looking through the docs for the VC tool. I did not see any requirements for how to promote projects. Is the protocol used just tcp/ip?

Thanks.

Hi,
When installing the VC tool you get it's documentation.
In short you first create a DS prject for the VC tool.
Then you log to it with VC and creates the additional stuff needed on top of that project.
Then you open projects and initialize components from the project you opened to the VC project.
Once you have components in the VC project you can promote them to any project you want among the one you have open (or open a project and them promote components to it.

IHTH,

I was looking more for the hardware requirements to promote from dev to test to prod and what protocol it uses.

tcp/ip
ssh etc.

Thanks

There are no hardware requirements. It's just another client tool like Designer or Director and 'attaches' to any given project in the same manner. That client connection is what is used to Initialize from a project or to Promote to a project.

Thanks,

Another question in order to promote from dev to test to prod, is a c++ compiler required on all the environments or can I get away with it just on the development server?

No PX here, but as far as I know it would be required on all servers, as VC promotes the source and then recompiles everything.

Recompilation is actually optional. However, all run time components must be present on all platforms.

True, it is optional. However, never really been sure what goes on under the covers if you uncheck that option as I never do. Does VC promote the run time components as well? Would make sense now that I think about it and simple enough to check, I suppose...

Thanks for the replies. So if it does promote the executables then I would not need the c++ compiler on the test and prod machines as long as I don't check the re-compile option. Correct?

Correct. FYI - You can make it default to unchecked in the VC options settings.