From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3c8a1ddc13ecb354 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pautet@email.enst.fr (Laurent Pautet) Subject: Re: Configuration Management for Ada on Unix Date: 1996/05/26 Message-ID: <4o94io$5ai@foehn.enst.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 156797406 sender: pautet@enst.fr references: <4nvm27$e68@gde.GDEsystems.COM> <31A39EB4.15FB7483@escmail.orl.mmc.com> <4o4pup$h7n@scapin.enst.fr> <31A79E0A.2F99@hiwaay.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <31A79E0A.2F99@hiwaay.net>, Bob Crispen wrote: > >It really just depends on what you need. If you've got a number of >simultaneous versions and targets and are doing a real product-line set >of builds, you'll obviously need one of the professional products, while >homebrew version control will do you if you have a handful of targets >and have only a rolling 3-version system (Test, Current, and Delivery). > >Note that SCCS allows you to have several directory trees. You can have >one tree for each version, and within that trees for platforms (e.g., >common, vme, workstation). SCCS can then load everything down to one >big directory for each build. Unlike the flat(ter) VMS filesystem, Unix's >filesystem can be used as a serious helper for your configuration management >tool. Maybe I am wrong, but I think SCCS is very unefficient because it stores patches between Version (N+1) - Version (N) and when you want to access to version N, internally SCCS retrieves version 0 and applies all the patches to obtain version N. RCS stores the last version (rather than the first one) and differences between Version (N) - Version (N+1). Anyway, you should have a look at CVS. It provides a lot of nice features, especially those you mentionned above. Basically, it's a configuration and version system when RCS and SCCS are only version systems. -- -- Laurent