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From: peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: INFO REQUEST: Source Control/ Version Control Systems
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Date: 16 Mar 91 16:35:24 GMT
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In article <2195@cs.rit.edu>, news@cs.rit.edu (N) writes:
> WHAT I (think) I KNOW:
> 
> 1) Projector Program- This is a program that is bundled with MPW and provides a
> degree of functionality of a source control system.

Well, Projector *is* a source control system.  It works very well
(IMHO) and I have used it a number of times to coordinate a large
project among a large number of programmers.  I've used other systems
on other platforms and Projector measures up quite nicely.

> 2) Multiple Copies - I call this the brute force method.  It requires keeping
> complete multiple copies of the software/documentation for each
> version/release.  This quickly becomes unmanageable and wasteful for any
> reasonably sized project especially wheou consider question (2c) above.

Right, this breaks down fast.

> 3) Another computer system's source control facility - I use the source control
> system of a Sun workstation, called SCCS for those who are familiar.  It
> provides the features described above. I'm sure it exists, in some form or the
> other, on other UNIX sems.  This is inconvenient since I must use Telnet to
> transfer the files and it tends to be slow for larger projects, not to mention
> that I must be done frequently.  Most of you probably don't have access to (or
> don't want to learn) other systems.

A new product (coming soon :-) is Version Master from AaStart Technologies.
It provides version control for non-MPW users.  It works well for non-
programmers who need to control documents (DTP, CAD, Art, etc).  They
have also made some improvements recently to make it a reasonable choice
for source code control for people using the THINK environments (thanks
for telling them that this is needed!).

This product is still is beta, but they can be reached at:

AsStar Technologies
P.O. Box 1100
Littleton, MA 01460
(508) 486-8532

-- michael

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