Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control (Nutshell Handbooks) 1st Edition

by Don Bolinger (Author), Tan Bronson (Author)

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Applying RCS and SCCS tells you how to manage a complex software development project using RCS and SCCS. The book tells you much more than how to use each command; it's organized in terms of increasingly complex management problems, from simple source management, to managing multiple releases, to coordinating teams of developers on a project involving many files and more than one target platform.Few developers use RCS or SCCS alone; most groups have written their own extensions for working with multiperson, multiplatform, multifile, multirelease projects. Part of this book, therefore, discusses how to design your own tools on top of RCS or SCCS, both covering issues related to "front-ending" in general, and by describing TCCS, one such set of tools (available via FTP). This book also provides an overview of CVS, SPMS, and other project management environments.

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Applying RCS and SCCS tells you how to manage a complex software development project using RCS and SCCS. The book tells you much more than how to use each command; it's organized in terms of increasingly complex management problems, from simple source management, to managing multiple releases, to coordinating teams of developers on a project involving many files and more than one target platform. Few developers use RCS or SCCS alone; most groups have written their own extensions for working with multiperson, multiplatform, multifile, multirelease projects. Part of this book, therefore, discusses how to design your own tools on top of RCS or SCCS, both covering issues related to "front-ending" in general, and by describing TCCS, one such set of tools (available via FTP). This book also provides an overview of CVS, SPMS, and other project management environments.

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Now there's a book that gives you some help managing your project's source files. Applying RCS and SCCS is a thorough introduction to the two most popular source control systems under UNIX. The authors of this book take you from basic source control of a single file, through working with multiple releases of a software project, to coordinating teams of developers on a project involving many files and more than one target platform. The authors go well beyond lists of commands and command options: they help you define the problem you're really trying to solve, and then they show you how to solve it. This book also presents TCCS, a representative "front-end" to RCS and SCCS that addresses problems RCS and SCCS can't handle alone, such as managing groups of files, developing for multiple platforms, and linking public and private development areas. If you're a programmer or a software project manager, this book should be required reading.|Now there's a book that gives you some help managing your project's source files. Applying RCS and SCCS is a thorough introduction to the two most popular source control systems under UNIX. The authors of this book take you from basic source control of a single file, through working with multiple releases of a software project, to coordinating teams of developers on a project involving many files and more than one target platform. The authors go well beyond lists of commands and command options: they help you define the problem you're really trying to solve, and then they show you how to solve it. This book also presents TCCS, a representative "front-end" to RCS and SCCS that addresses problems RCS and SCCS can't handle alone, such as managing groups of files, developing for multiple platforms, and linking public and private development areas. If you're a programmer or a software project manager, this book should be required reading.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ O'Reilly Media; 1st edition (March 21, 1995)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1565921178
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1565921177
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.88 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.17 x 9.19 inches

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Book was as advertised, arrived as forecast, and was good value for the money. The book is a good addition to my reference library.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2000

The first half of this book is great for someone who has NEVER worked with any Version Control System (VCS) before or someone who is brand new to Source Code Management (SCM). It gives you the generic description of each segment of SCM, and then follows that with an explanation of how that segment is implemented in RCS and SCCS. Well, if you have EVER worked with any VCS before, you could simply read the man pages or check the web for all the information you'd need to get started with RCS. (I haven't used SCCS, so I won't comment on that portion of the book.)
The second half of the book explains TCCS, the authors' solution to extending RCS to Project Management. They suggest many approaches that I personally consider absurd. I've worked with many VCS tools and am currently in the process of implementing a Project Management system for a large IS corporation (500+ developers)...and plan on using few (if any) of the authors' suggestions for applying RCS.
In a nutshell, save your money, check the web, and good luck...

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Dallas E Beek

Good intro to source control

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2000

This book provided a good introduction to source control management but was week on implementation of an interface system. TCCS was explained in detail but I was personally looking for the knowledge from TCCS to implement my own interface to RCS via scripting, which was not explained. I too skipped all of the chapters on SCCS and most of the chapters on TCCS and found only 10 of the 23 chapters useful.

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