I would have to disagree, Steve. There are some of us still in "dinosaur land",
and still using CSSC/SCCS on a daily basis.
10 years ago this year, we moved our COBOL development platform from
HP-UX/AIX/Solaris (and DG/UX before that) and on to a shiny new ProLiant
running RHEL 4.7.
One of the biggest hurdles for us was being able to manage our source code
under GNU/Linux. Luckily, there was James Youngman and CSSC. I would have to
say that we have found CSSC to be particularly dependable and well written. The
only problems we've ever had with it were caused by our misuse of the SCCS
files.
We use a highly customised script as a wrapper frontend to CSSC, and we should
probably move to a later Version Control System, but I would have to convince
my employer of the need to do that when we already have a perfectly functional
system that everybody here is already familiar with. (We are already using
Subversion for our Java development.) We also have some unusual practices, I
think, which might make moving to some other VCS a little tricky.
We do anywhere from about 3 to 20 "check-ins" (commits) per day, and there are
14,353 files managed by CSSC. It works very well!
Regards,
Geoff Hull | Technical Support | McCarthy Associates
Floor 1, 100 McLeod St, Hastings 4120, New Zealand
PO Box 2006, Hastings 4153, New Zealand
P: +64 6 871 5700 F: +64 6 871 5709 E: geoff.h...@mccarthy.co.nz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Medrick" <smedr...@tnc.org>
To: cssc-users@gnu.org
Sent: Tuesday, 14 June, 2016 1:28:31 AM
Subject: Re: cssc-users Digest, Vol 34, Issue 3
Godef:
Thanks for adding the tag lines to the gnu pages. I have to admit that
this code base should probably be mothballed with a foot note describing
it as a software escape hatch hacked to help the mainframe prisoners
escape into open source code versioning tools.
I am however just a user of it from the early 2000's rather than the
author or contributors.
That said...CSSC was an escape hatch written to help users of a 90s era
SCCS version control system that probably hasn't been installed on
anything built after 2001, so outside of Computer Science archaeologists
who trip over a rare burned CD of a SCCS store, I can't imagine anyone
using it again.
-steve
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> From: Th?r?se Godefroy <godef...@free.fr>
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> Le 11/05/2016 11:29, Th?r?se Godefroy a ?crit :
>> [...] Cssc has 2 pages [1] with the old kind of
>> translation list at the bottom of the page; I propose to upgrade them to
>> boilerplate 1.79 [2]. This would give the opportunity of fixing a few
>> XHTML errors. A diff is attached.
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>> Best regards,
>> Therese
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>> [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/index.html
>> https://www.gnu.org/software/cssc/early-history.html
>> [2]
>> http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&content-type=text%2Fplain
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