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Item 3045018 93/09/01 16:51
From: CONRAD_GEIGER@NEXT.COM@INTERNET#
Subject: Announcing Multi-Project Management Tool: DevMan for NEXTSTEP
For more information, contact:
Ronald V. Simmons
VNP Software, Inc.
Phone: (802) 496-7799
Fax: (802) 496-7790
Email: DevMan_Info@vnp.com
Announcing Multi-Project Management Tool: DevMan for NEXTSTEP
Cambridge, MA - September 1, 1993 - VNP Software today announced
availability of DevMan, a low cost tool for synchronizing
multi-programmer/ multi-project software development. DevMan
provides source code control and configuration management support
for projects of any size to expedite the development process.
DevMan's user interface provides programmers with much easier, more
reliable access to source code control functions, e.g., those
available from RCS or SCCS. Daily tasks, such as checking files
in and out or synchronizing your work area with other developers'
work, can be performed directly from the Workspace Manager's
"Services" menu. Additional consistency features extend the
usefulness of source-code control - identifying newly added or
modified files during the check-in process, and automatically
removing files that others have deleted from the repository.
DevMan also transparently handles NeXT file packages such as .nib
and .dbmodel directories.
Central to DevMan's design is the concept of "development
branches," which allows parallel independent development in the
same directory. For example, development branches allow developers
to apply emergency fixes to a protected production branch within a
source-code repository - allowing an easy merge of production fixes
with the active development branch when appropriate.
DevMan uses development branches in conjunction with "configuration
maps" to designate static or dynamic configurations of any set of
source files. This key feature allows all of the files and
directories for any project to be grouped, maintained, released
and recovered as a single unit, using very simple commands. DevMan
also offers a security layer that lets you control access to
operations at both the configuration management and source code
control levels.
"DevMan gives us sophisticated configuration management and
source-code control at a fraction of the cost of competing
products," said Jim Loree, Senior Software Analyst, Chrysler
Financial Corporation. "Our developers rely on DevMan's
synchronization features to coordinate their work, and the
configuration management features are essential for managing our
systems across the development, test and production phases."
DevMan is priced at $395 per seat and is available immediately.
A demo version of DevMan is available via anonymous ftp at vnp.com
in the /pub directory. A demo version may also be obtained via
NeXTMail (large) by sending mail to DevMan_Demo@vnp.com.
VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and
consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software
products include the AccessKit, for class-based database access;
the UIBinder Palette, for binding object information to the user
interface; and the IXAdaptor, the DBKit adaptor for NeXT's Indexing
Kit.
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