Update: 8/15, SamV
We finished our upgrade to Pb 12.5 recently. Meant a lot of setup and infrastructure changes (s we were running on really old software).
We currently use PVCS 8.02. We decided against upgrade to 8.5, as it required server side upgrade which we didn't want to include in our current PB upgrade project which was already bloated with Windows upgrade etc. Few fixes were needed to make PVCS 8.02 work with PB 12.5:
- First, all 32-bit applications needed to be run as Windows XP/SP3 compatible.
- Then, I had to replace the Java runtime (PVCS client turned out to be just another Java program!!) inside PVCS to 1.5.0_22. Everything is fine now.
I also decided against installing any of my 32-bit app in Program Files (x86) (What kind of naming convention is that? Several programs already complained about embedded space, MS went ahead to add special chars!! Several programs don't like the parentheses in name).
I've created a C:\Prog32 where all my 32-bit applications, including PVCS, end up. This also helps with shortening PATH variable (which still has length restriction in Windows 7 - Has Windows 7 Fixed the 255 Character File Path Limit? - Stack Overflow).
Note: We do pay annual contract to Serena, so we were eligible for an upgrade. We still have not decided whether to go with SVN or next version of PVCS. I will leave that to the powers-to-be.