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From: wmb@mitch.Eng.Sun.COM (Mitch Bradley)
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Subject: Re:  Forth in the Marketplace
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Date: 14 Jan 91 02:57:24 GMT
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> Has anyone attempted
> to develop something like SCCS for the (non- Unix) Forth domain?

1) One of my clients uses a data base system (maybe DBase, but I'm not
sure) to maintain the Forth source files for their rather-large
application.  They have a Novell network of PC's that they use for
editing, etc.  The application delivery platform is a 680x0-based VME
system that is gatewayed to the Novell network.

2) Peter James has a company, the name of which eludes me right now,
that sells a source-code-management/software project support database
system written in Forth.  I think it supports several software
development environments, including Macintosh PWB.  I doubt that it
is cheap; he's trying to make a living selling it.  Peter has been
doing database systems implemented in Forth for several years.

3) I think that the Valdocs people developed some sort of screen-based
project management tools.  I vaguely remember that there was some talk
of commercializing it.  Somebody may have the rights to it.  Ron
Braithwaite might know.

Conceptually, it shouldn't be too difficult to cobble-together something
like SCCS.  The hardest component would be a good "minimum set of
differences" finder.  On the other hand, I would be hard-pressed to
justify the effort of writing it, compared to buying an off-the-shelf
database system or porting RCS (RCS is a source management system,
roughly equivalent to SCCS in scope, that is, or at least used to be,
available in C source form).

Mitch