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Subject: Re: Source Code Control
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Date: 22 Jun 89 16:50:00 GMT
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Written  2:02 am  Jun 21, 1989 by maslen@polya.Stanford.EDU:
>Hope this isn't too commercial for this newsgroup, but... are people
>also aware of Sun's NSE?  It runs on Suns under (I believe) SunOS 3.5
>(and 4.0 Real Soon Now, if not already).  It lets one manipulate
>revisions of source trees (not just single source files) and has some
>notion of variants for derived files.  Reflecting a difference between
>industry and academia, parts of it are implemented in the kernel so
>that your favourite binary (editor, compiler, whatever) can work
>happily with NSE (no relinking needed).

I've heard of NSE, but haven't seen any write-ups of it.  (If anyone knows
of a good one, I'd appreciate the reference.)  From what you've described,
it sounds a lot like Apollo's DSEE, which has been out for about 5 years
now.  One advantage SUN has, obviously, is a larger market for their product.
I'd be interested in hearing of any conceptual/technical improvements NSE
has over DSEE.

Hal Render
render@cs.uiuc.edu    uiucdcs!render