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- From: woods@robohack.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
- Subject: Re: SCCS eats good code -- help requested
- Organization: Elegant Communications Inc.
- References: <1992Dec18.215413.65833@evolving.com> <1992Dec20.201522.28201@lorelei.approve.se>
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.061749.7408@robohack.UUCP>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 06:17:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.201522.28201@lorelei.approve.se> hoh@lorelei.approve.se (Goran Larsson) writes:
- > The handling of these version strings is in itself a very good reason
- > to avoid SCCS. The decision to only expand version strings when compiling
- > is wrong. If I send source to someone, I want to expand version strings
- > so "someone" can report problems - but "someone" might also want to
-
- It's also a very good reason to *use* SCCS.
-
- SCCS provides infinitely more flexible keyword expansion and report
- generation than RCS.
-
- > 1) find /usr -name sccs -exec rm -rf {} \;
-
- Very, very, silly thing to even suggest!
-
- > 2) Install RCS
-
- Good plan! And if you buy lots of machines from a vendor who doesn't
- support the latest versions of such tools, then lobby them to do so!
-
- > 3) Use RCS
-
- Sorry, wong! :-)
-
- What you really want to do is also hide RCS behind an even better tool:
-
- 4) install CVS-1.3
-
- 5) use CVS!
-
- > btw :-)
-
- Only 0.5 :-)!
-
- --
- Greg A. Woods
-
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