Source Code Management

[Tracey]

I need a robust, but fairly easy to use source code tracking program that will take care of shell/source on the HP/UX side, as well as asp, etc. files from the Microsoft side. I've used VCS, aka Diamond CM, aka eChangeMan - but that seems to be a administrative nightmare.

I've posted this on the Microsoft forum here several days ago, but got no responses.

Thanks,
Tracey

[harry d brown jr]

Have you looked at sccs or rcs?

Simple and straight forward.

O'reilly:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rcs/

live free or die
harry

[Steve Steel]

Hi

This seems usable

http://www.merant.com/pvcs/


Steve steel

[Hartmut Lang]

RCS is a good thing for me!

But the rcs-version which normaly is included in HPUX, is pretty old. It only supports pure text-files (sources, headers, Makefile, ...) but no binaries.

If you need support for binaries, have a look into the latest GNU-Version of rcs.

Hartmut

[Tracey]

The RCS/SCCS that I see installed on my system is a little too simple. Some of the users using it will be non-unix type persons who would be totally lost. Unless of course there is a GUI version that I missed?

I've requested a evaluation copy of Merant, thanks!

[Wodisch]

Hi,

why not using CVS?
You have all kinds of clients, GUI and even Web, it's available for all kinds of operating systems and for free ;-)

HTH,
Wodisch

[Carl Lawrence-Slater]

Second vote for CVS. We are starting to use it exclusively (~400 projects ranging from 20 line scripts to 300,000 line libraries)

It is the source code system behind "sourceforge" ( do google search you will like it)

CVS is portable runs on HP-UX and Win2k
Web based if required... We link Ohio to India

Easier than Rational's Clearcase ( nothing clear about it IMHO)

Regards
Carl

[Pete Randall]

Third vote for CVS. Simple, straightforward, free.

Pete

[harry d brown jr]

Tracy,

I agree with the CVS votes, and I agree that RCS/SCCS is complicated, that's why whn I was at my last job as a developer, we "wrapped" the sccs stuff with perl scripts. I wish I still had that code!

live free or die
harry

[Tracey]

To me CVS is the name of a local pharmacy. :)

I looked at it and it looks very interesting. Since I only have an ISDN connection to the internet that I share with about 10-12 other folks, would someone be as kind to tell me which of the files I should download:

http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectDownloadList

Thanks for your assistance.

Tracey

[Timothy Butler · Accepted solution]

You may find more specific help in the comp.software.config-mgmt Usenet group. You can search it at groups.google.com. Try things like "pros and cons" etc. to find summaries.

Some offer more than others, such as versioning of directories and dependency tracking in ClearCase.

(When I worked for HP, our group's entire SCM and development processes were based on ClearCase, and I loved the product.)

[Cory Cobler]

I actually have a Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest that are still in the boxes that I am trying to get rid of - contact me at: ccobler@kilotek.com if interested. I need to let them go asap this translates to cheap :-)

[Steven E. Protter]

I just saw this old post.

We are building an integrated environment with PVCS.

We already use PVCS on the Windows side of the house. With CIFS/9000 samba, we can open up certain directories to a special PVCS user which can move everything, including scripts in and out of production. Checkin, check out the whole thing.

I will admit that as a sysadmin, I can keep track of my own scripts pretty well, but there are programmer developed scripts and componenents and oracle forms that will benefit from this environment when its done.

SEP

[Chris Vail]

We use CVS, from http://www.cvshome.org. The users seem to like it, and its a cinch to install and maintain. And it works across multiple platforms.

Count this as another CVS vote.




Chris