booloo@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) (07/20/90)
We are interested in managing the source code for a distributed application. This code will be scattered over several machines of different manufacture, all running some version of Unix supporting NFS. Since parts of the application will be located on different machines and thus in different directories, there could be problems using existing source code control systems (like SCCS and RCS) in performing 'gets' (or their equivalent). Does anyone know if there is work going on to upgrade SCCS or RCS so they would be suitable for managing such distributed source code. If so, what are the nature of the upgrades? Or perhaps someone knows of some other product that might help us achieve our goals. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Please email responses to me. If there is sufficient interest, I'll be glad to post a summary. mb booloo@lll-crg.llnl.gov
stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (07/20/90)
In article <65057@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV> booloo@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Mark Boolootian) writes: > >Does anyone know if there is work going on to upgrade SCCS or RCS so they would >be suitable for managing such distributed source code. Last week at the UKUUG meeting in London the following paper was presented: "Development of a Distributed Revision Control System (DRCS)" by Brian O'Donovan and James Grimson, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Rep. of Ireland. odonovan@cs.tcd.ie The summary says that copies of DRCS are available free of charge from the authors. It is a modification to release 4.1 of RCS that consisted of deleting 1,100 lines of code and inserting 1,786 new lines. Richard Stevens 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT stevens@hsi.com