I have UV/RCS, a UV frontend to GNU RCS. It allows RCS functionality and security with the comfort of never having to leave your own home in UV:
- Universe menu, - TCL commands, - honours and builds select lists, - and you can control hashed records & dictionaries as well as programs. O'Reilly's "Applying RCS & SCCS" is a good tool for learning & administering RCS (at ain't hard) but your ordinary MV pgmr won't have to touch that book. UV/RCS has some nice tools that make it an asset for UV programmers, rather than a bureaucratic imposition that slows them down. For example, programmers can search, track, and compare versions, and they don't need to flag their modifications in the source code. RCS can reassemble that for them as needed. It is NOT a full project control package like SJ+ PRC. PRC is in a different league. I do think it does better than PRC at truly locking down your code, which may or may not be important. There is one large installation that has used it for several years. Another one used it as an intermediate step for a couple years until they moved their UV ap from Unix to MS, and then conformed to the corporate practice of using Visual SourceSafe. The RCS behind UV/RCS allowed for easy migration to SourceSafe. I have not actively marketed UV/RCS but would be willing to do so. I haven't figured out a price, but it would need to be between one & tow orders of magnitude cheaper than Susan's PRC, which is the standard to measure by. What UV/RCS does, it does well, but it does less than PRC. It should cost less than rolling (& debugging!) your own. I don't think it would take much effort to convert it to UniData, but we'd have to work that out somehow. Talk to me on- or off-list, if any of this interests you. But I will be out of the office from now until Thursday, for family reasons. Charles Stevenson > From: David Tod Sigafoos > Subject: [U2] Looking for CheckIn CheckOut > > u2-users, > > my client has asked for a simple CheckIn/CheckOut. The one I have > is written specifically for another environment (bad choice but i > was young) and so i wanted to check here to see if anyone had one > that they would share before I go to the expense of writing one. I > know the client would be much happier <G> > > TIA > > -- > DSig > David Tod Sigafoos ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
