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From: clive@drutx.ATT.COM (Clive Steward)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Compiling with MPW Projector - Is this obvious??
Message-ID: <9789@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: 31 Dec 88 08:54:32 GMT
References: <3505@geaclib.UUCP>
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From article <3505@geaclib.UUCP>, by rae@geaclib.UUCP (Reid Ellis):
> Excuse my ignorance, not having a copy of MPW 3, but if Projector is
> anything like RCS, it might have flags such that you can check in your source
> and have it removed at the same time.  Is this so?

Yes, it's so.  Removed, or left alone, or left read-only.

And where is the database
> stored?  The same directory or a specified one or... ?

Wherever you like, in its own directory.  There can be multiple build 
directories (and concomitant revision names, levels, project branches, etc.). 
Haven't dug into this, but looks completely flexible, for multiperson,
multi-hacks on same project base, multi bases, servers w/multi users, etc..

> 
> Could anyone post a comparison of Projector with RCS or even [shudder]
> SCCS?

Never could like SCCS, don't know RCS, have viewed others, none good.

I feel Projector is quite simple, neat, quick, powerful.  Bottom line:
you are looking at a file, want to change it --  Leave it up, check it
out taking a few seconds, go back to the window and edit it.

You can check it back in, leaving file, r/o, or nothing.  Long and
short visible comments on check in and out, changeable, perusable through 
revisions.  Naming for overall levels through file at individual revisions
-- e.g. Release1.2 => file1.r3, file2.r7, etc..  Compression of text 
revisions.  Many useful reporting & administration features.

As many other things in MPW, at least by 3.0b1, this is starting to look 
exactly like Unix redone as you might wish it to be.

Thanks, Apple.

Clive Steward