paul@ppgbms (Paul Evan Matz) (07/25/90)
I was wondering what others out there are doing to support projects that are heterogenous, made up of both DOS and Unix applications. We are building an integrated system that has Unix, DOS, vrtx, and embedded propriatary firmware OS applications, and we would like to find a source code control tool set that is available on both Unix and DOS platforms. Currently, we are using the following tools: sccs on the Unix platform, tlib and polymake on the DOS platform; sccs/make is used to build both Unix and vrtx applications, while tlib/polymake is used to build C++ DOS and embedded propriatary firmware. Frankly, I've been going crazy lately trying to make this sort of development environment work. So much to explain to developers, so little time. The thing that is really missing from the tool set is a comprehensive way to do configuration management, tracking which set of which versions of which files are required to go into a release, and then associating an output binary (DOS exe file, Unix a.out, eprom image, ...) together with its companion binaries. Of course, the other major important characteristic is a compatible user interface (commands, config/make files). I believe that polytron offers their PVCS tools for both DOS and Unix (polymake is one of these tools). Has anyone out there tried "sharing" a PVCS archive between a DOS and Unix system? We currently running ftp software's tcplink for telenet/ftp operations between Unix and DOS, and are thinking about getting their direct nfs filesystem access tool to allow us to share files (like PVCS archive files). Anyone have anything to say about polytron's stuff in general? Let me know, and I'll to put together a summary. Thanks (wishful thinking) ___________________________________________________________________ |Regards, PPG Biomedical Systems | |Paul Matz One Campus Drive | |914-741-4685 Pleasantville, NY. 10570 | |{..}!uunet!philabs!ppgbms!paul ppgbms!paul@philabs.philips.com | |___________________________________________________________________|
bud@cimage.com (Bud Howard/1000000) (07/27/90)
We have PVCS running on both our UNIX and DOS machines. And we use ftp from the UNIX end to run out to the Novell Network and grab files requested for both the UNIX and DOS end. With shell scripts and/or batch files this process is simple to add the necessary tags (e.g. -b for no binary translation) to your commands. bud