Re: Version control

Hi,
I've used both PVCS and RCS with success. Granted, the version control is handed externally from the development tools (never got it to work integrated), but with the rule that ALWAYS put/get your code as TEXT files (meaning export the files to the ..T formats before giving it to the revision control system), everything works great and as a team efford you really get some helping in controlling the end result.

To my knowledge the market of revision control programs booms. As the exported source text files are not human understandable (well, almost!) most of the "nice tools" don't do much for the developer. Chosing any tool with the ability to safeguard sourcecode (don't let developers write there!) is a good choise. I've just not seen a tool that has a "demon" running that ensures that noone but an administrator can access the sourcefiles. Both PVCS and RCS is just simple filetools. Any developer can delete the complete revision source file if he wants .... bypassing the admin utilities and directly delete the file from the filesystem.

• Peter H. Larsen Oracle Consultant

Cees Van Tilburg wrote:

> We are looking for an easy to use version control tool which works well
> with an ORACLE D2000 environment. Let me explain what we want:
> - version number in our forms template
> - administration of changes/source per version incl. locking of files
> and directory setup
> - database scripts to go from one version of the database to the other
>
> We considered PVCS wich is a fine tool but we'd very much like to hear
> from about
> other tools.
>
> Please email if you have/know a tool I will repost a resume of all the
> answers.
>
> regards,
>
> Cees van Tilburg
Received on Thu Jun 11 1998 - 20:06:45 CEST