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- From: Ian.Parker@f1.n700.z6.fidonet.org (Ian Parker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Wanted: Source code cont
- Message-ID: <18829.2A9A7059@puddle.fidonet.org>
- Date: 24 Aug 92 16:24:06 GMT
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- On 08-19-92 Natalie Prowse wrote to All...
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- i > Hi all,
- i >
- i > Well, it's high time we did it. Things are getting out of hand. :-}
- i > We need some sort of source code control system, and/or software
- i > project management package. I am looking for input and suggestions
- i > from anyone out there who uses such products. They can be PD or
- i > commercial. Our primary project is coded in C, and an in-house
- i > Fortran dialect. (It is well over 100K lines of code, and growing.)
- i > Any product we use will have to be able to cope with these languages,
- i > or be tailorable. (is that a word? ;-) Any and all suggestions or
- i > words of warning/wisdom are welcome. If I get enough 'me too!'
- i > responses, I will summarize to the net.
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- i >
-
- Natalie
-
- Please summarise to the net. I'd like to know what the current views are.
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- I like DEC's Code Management System (for it's integration with MMS).
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- I used it as the base for a source code control and release system for
- a major bank. Our particular concern was to be able to provide localised
- production releases for target systems in different countries, and to
- allow those countries to layer on their own, further, customisations.
-
- What I didn't like was that it needed too much manual management to share
- core/common code between (i) localisations of a project and (ii) different
- projects. We used groups to collect related sources, andn classes to
- describe release versions (so we could restore any earlier release). But
- it got very cumbersome. I kept thinking that may it would be easier to
- store the code in directories, i.e. I wanted a tree structure to control
- the sources.
-
- I said above that I like CMS for it's integration with MMS, but in the
- above application we didn't use MMS. Instead we had to write a an
- automatic build program (like MAKE/MMS but without the intelligence)
- to satisfy the audit department's security requirements over release
- control.
-
- Please keep me informed on what you find out, in particular anything
- relating to the release/packaging of production versions.
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