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From: dmt@mtunb.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need info on Program Version Control software (sccs).
Message-ID: <1159@mtunb.ATT.COM>
Date: 15 Jan 88 12:52:04 GMT
References: <7800@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmt@mtunb.UUCP (Dave Tutelman)
Organization: AT&T Information Systems - Lincroft, NJ
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Summary: Polytron makes pretty good stuff

In article <7800@sunybcs.UUCP> ugkong@sunybcs.UUCP (Bob Kong) writes:
>Does anyone have any information on programs such as Polytron PVCS
>software or any software of this type from any other vendors.  

I have been using a couple of Polytron development tools, and am
generally pleased with their products.  Brief review:

PVCS (Polytron Version Control System) - it ain't SCCS, but it works.
Actually, it seems a philosophical child (or at least nephew) of
SCCS.  My major complaint is that I haven't figured out how to use
the locking options to avoid the "last submitter wins" kind of
disasters that befall multi-developer projects.  (But then, we
are using multiple copies of the older single-user PVCS to access
shared source files over a LAN.  I understand the newer PVCS comes
in a networked version that deals with this problem directly.  Also,
I haven't worked hard on this problem 'cause it's not a problem
in my [so far very small] project.)  I'm also impressed with its
speed.  Several years ago, I used SCCS much more than now; even
controlled the drafts of my memos.  But I stopped because gets and
deltas took too long.  PVCS is so fast, you hardly notice.

PolyMake - yet another MSDOS-based-almost-UNIX-compatible MAKE
program.  Actually, it's the best I've used, though NDMAKE
(shareware from Don Kneller) and Turbo Make (included "free"
in Turbo C from Borland) are real close in most features.  (By
the way, DON'T use Microsoft's MAKE; it's a toy, not a tool.)

The big win for PolyMake is that it works with PVCS.  In particular,
it knows how to read PVCS archives to get ages of source, knows
how to read the revision and version numbers, and can be "programmed"
to make certain versions (not quite as convenient as s-lists in sccs,
but not bad at all).

I'm not connected with any of the companies mentioned above.
The opinions expressed here are my own; I don't pretend to speak for AT&T.

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