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From: escher@apple.com (Mike Crawford)
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Subject: Re: Project management in THINK C (as in UNIX RCS or MPW Projector)
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Date: 5 Feb 90 21:45:50 GMT
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I have thought a bit about this, having done a lot of source code control 
on Unix.  The source
code to RCS is available, and there is a better source code control system 
that has come out of Germany, though I forget the name, that is available 
in source.  They could be ported to the Mac.

I am fiddling with porting some of the GNU tools, grep, flex, and bison, 
to ThinkC.  I have not gotten very far yet, but I have the idea of running 
them with some kind of DA.

Integrating RCS into ThinkC, though is another problem.  ThinkC does not 
give the developer any means to customize it, nor the format of the 
project file (there have been times I have wished I could fiddle with it).

How about a "Source Code Control Filesystem?"  (or version numbering of 
files as in VMS...).  One could write a foreign filesystem driver that 
would diff files as they were written!  (I sure wouldn't want to write it).

ThinkC would sell to a lot of people who use MPW if they had good version 
control!  I cannot imagine any project with more than one or two 
programmers successfully using ThinkC over several releases.  I enjoy 
using ThinkC at home, but here at Apple we all use MPW.

Mike Crawford
Oddball Enterprises
694 Nobel Drive
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
oddball!mike@ucscc.ucsc.edu

Consulting for Apple Computer Inc.
escher@apple.com

These are my own opinions.  No one else may have them.