Here are references to RCS and related free software and documentation. Some of this information changes often; see the Frequently Asked Questions for more up-to-date references. Id: REFS,v 1.1 1995/06/16 06:19:24 eggert Exp Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/> <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software-eng/> for software engineering; e.g. see <http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/Software-Engineering/blurb/rcs>. <http://www.iac.honeywell.com/Pub/Tech/CM/CMFAQ.html> <ftp://rtfm.mit.edu//pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/software/config-mgmt/> for configuration management <http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/FAQ.txt> <ftp://ftp.odi.com/pub/users/dgg/FAQ.gz> for CVS (see below) RCS and related GNU project software <ftp://ftp.cs.purdue.edu/pub/RCS/> The RCS project distribution directory also contains beta versions, ports, and prebuilt documentation. <ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/> The GNU project distribution directory contains: diffutils-N-tar.gz the latest diffutils release; recommended for RCS emacs-N-tar.gz The latest Emacs release contains VC, a version-control package that makes RCS easier to use. make-N-tar.gz GNU Make, which can automatically build from RCS files. rcs-N-tar.gz the latest RCS release cvs-N-tar.gz the latest official CVS release (see below) <ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/os2/gnu/devtools/> DOS, OS/2 ports <ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port CVS CVS, the Concurrent Versions System, keeps tracks of source changes made by groups of developers working on the same files concurrently, allowing them to resync as needed. <http://www.winternet.com/~zoo/cvs/> <http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs-index.html> These pages have useful information about CVS. <ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/cvs-1.3.tar.gz> CVS 1.3 is the latest released version. <ftp://ftp.delos.com/pub/cvs/alpha/cvs-1.4A2.tar.gz> CVS 1.4 is in alpha test, but it is recommended if you are installing CVS for the first time, or on a recent operating system. <ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/unix/> DOS, OS/2 ports <ftp://ftp.cc.utexas.edu/microlib/nt/gnu/> NT port <ftp://ftp.cyclic.com/pub/cvs/> Cyclic CVS adds network transparency to CVS; it supports efficient, reliable, and authenticated repository access via TCP/IP. Other software that uses RCS <ftp://ftp.nau.edu/pub/Aegis/> Aegis manages revisions, baselines, mandatory reviews, and mandatory testing. <ftp://ftp.vix.com/pub/patches/csu/> BCS, the Baseline Configuration System, manages revisions, baselines, and staging areas. <ftp://riftp.osf.org/pub/ode/> ODE, the Open Software Foundation Development Environment, manages revisions, builds, and sandboxes. OSF uses it for their own development. <ftp://bellcore.com/pub/Odin/> Odin, a `make' replacement, can build directly from arbitrary revisions without requiring checkouts of working copies. It also handles parallel builds on multiple remote hosts and of multiple variants. |