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- From: ac690@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edward Klimas)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Version Control for ParcPlace SmallTalk 4.1
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 01:34:30 GMT
- Organization: Linea Engineering, Inc. Cleveland, Ohio
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- References: <6800@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: ac690@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Edward Klimas)
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- In a previous article, harwoodm@cs.man.ac.uk (Malcolm J. Harwood) says:
-
- >
- >I am writing a final year degree project in SmallTalk, part of which
- >involves building a version control system. Admittedly I haven't actually
- >tried implementing it yet, but it seems like just a matter of getting
- >the compiler to look elsewhere instead of the system dictionary. (and
- >building browsers etc. to access the different versions).
- >The conceptual simplicity and the usefulness of such a facility, leads
- >me to wonder what's so difficult about it that nobody appears to have
- >done this before.
- >Hense I would be very interested if anybody who has already tried this
- >could let me know wether is it actually possible, merely not worth the effort
- >or just a corperate secret.
- >Replies by email would be appriciated as I don't get to read news that
- >often these days.
- >Thanks,
- > Malcolm.
- >
- >__________________________________________________________________
- > Malcolm J. Harwood
- > Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, England
- > Email: malcolm@spec0.ee.man.ac.uk
- >
- I think you need to take a close look at what is commercially
- available already before trying to role your own (e.g. ENVY
- and other products) as well as the written literature (e.g.
- The Orwell System by Thomas et. al. in OOPSLA proceedings.)
- There have also been a number of excelent articles in The
- Smalltalk Report (BTW Creating a usable code management system
- is not an easy matter for any language. Please don't underestimate
- the market requirements for a usable CMS system for ST.
- The 3 attempts that I am aware of by individuals to role
- their own quickly went down in flames due to overconfidence
- and naivette of what it takes to do it right)
-
- Ed Klimas
-