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: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: Configuration Management for Ada on Unix Date: 1996/05/30 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 157570100 sender: tardieu@gargantua.enst.fr references: <9605301407.AA03821@most> to: "W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)" content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 organization: TELECOM Paris mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Wes" == Wes writes: >> ... RCS keeps the last version in a "pristine" form ... Wes> If I read this right, RCS keeps the last version in a form that Wes> will not choke a compiler? If so, then is there anything else Wes> about RCS that would prevent using the RCS directory as your Wes> "official" compilation library? Then "normal" builds would always Wes> use the latest checked-in files, and compilers that check file Wes> dates would not have to recompile files that had not been checked Wes> out and in again! No, you got it wrong; writing that RCS keeps a ready-to-extract copy of the latest version doesn't mean that there is nothing more in a RCS file, in fact there is :) Note that this would be wonderful, this would mean that one could store the old revisions of a file in zero byte :) Wes> The down side is that malice and/or stupidity could get in and Wes> edit the files without check in/out. Can't do that in SCCS Wes> unless you're clever enough to recompute and edit the checksum. You better not edit yourself a RCS file. Unix permissions will prevent you do this inadvertently anyway (RCS files are read-only be default). Wes> PLUG: A low cost CM system (and more!) that adds functionality to Wes> either SCCS or RCS is Razor. It is also very customizable. Even Wes> though written in C, it is reliable and robust--and the authors Wes> originally started it to support an Ada project. I have no Wes> personal interest in it, just a satisfied user. PLG: A *free* CM system (and more!) that is built on top of RCS is CVS. You can grab it from http://www.cyclic.com/ (I think) Sam -- "La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette" Charles Baudelaire