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- From: pyramid!utzoo!henry (Henry Spencer)
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 86 03:36:58 CST
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- Are the commands listed under "Software Development Environment" optional
- as individuals or as a block? If the latter, I find it disturbing that it
- is proposed to make the presence of SCCS (get, delta, etc.) mandatory to
- have a conforming system. SCCS is badly designed and seriously obsolete.
-
- While I realize that there is too much investment in existing SCCS use to
- stamp it out any time soon, I suggest that it is an outstandingly poor
- candidate for mandatory inclusion in a standard. At least one analogous
- system with what is generally agreed to be a vastly superior user interface
- and internal design is already in widespread use. Putting SCCS in 1003.2
- is not codifying current practice, it is codifying what is increasingly
- a relic of the past. This is inappropriate.
-
- If SCCS must be included in 1003.2's Software Development Environment, the
- detailed description of the functionality of the commands should be trimmed
- down so that it is not necessary to imitate every mistake of SCCS to be
- in conformance.
-
- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 11
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