kriz@rdp1.UUCP (patti krizowsky) (03/14/91)
My company is considering the purchase of a front-end system for UNIX's Source Code Control System (SCCS). The package is called STS and is from United Systems Inc. While the package itself looks pretty decent, it cost $4200 for a 10 user license, and I feel that's too expensive. I would like to ask what your opinions are on this matter. Let me give you some background info on the product. Half of it is written in shell scripts, a small part written with awk, and the rest in C. It consists of a set of commands to act as a front end to SCCS, thereby eliminating the need for our programmers to learn all the commands and options of the SCCS system itself (this in itself may not be a good thing, but let's not debate it). Anyway, it lets you do the following: "checkout" and "checkin" files cancel a "checkout" add programs to SCCS browse through controlled files compare revisions see which files are currently checked out see the comment history for a file produce file revision reports reproduce source from a list of revisions and some other functions not required by our company If you store all your source on one machine and distribute it to other systems (we do), it will allow remote checkout of a file. Apparently, this is done using uux and the uuto command. It requires you to run uupick to retrieve the file. Let me state that we use Progress as our database system, and we would like a front end for Progress to use SCCS without exiting the Progress editor. This is something our programmers can write, but I feel that if we're going to spend $4200 on a package, it should do everything we require. Also, if anyone knows of a cheaper SCCS front-end package, please let me know. I'd love to have some alternatives to this package. We could write our own SCCS front-end, but our boss is under the impression that it would take too much time away from other projects. We're a paper/pulp mill, not a software development mill :-) Feel free to send me e-mail, or post your opinions here. I do actually read this group on a regular basis. If I receive lots of e-mail, I'll post a summary. Thanks for the input! -- patti krizowsky e-mail: rdp1!kriz federal paper board "Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?" - Hobbes, of Calvin &
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (03/15/91)
Wow! That's rediculously priced! Check-out Brian Berliners's CVS system, distributed with the GNU tape. It's free and works well. --tom