[NTLUG:Discuss] Comparison of CVS and SrcSafe

Christopher Browne cbbrowne at hex.net
Wed Nov 3 21:43:00 CST 1999


On Wed, 03 Nov 1999 09:30:52 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
"George E. Lass" <George.Lass at osc.com>  said:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> <snip> 
> > Neither tools is ideal.  I like SCCS over RCS mainly for
> > it's easy embedding...however, I note that it's just
> > commercial Unix....AT&T is too proud (?) to release
> > the source and make it more widely available.  So, from
> > a "free" side, RCS is the defacto winner. 
> 
> Actually there IS a GNU'ed version of SCCS called CSSC!
> I have been using it for over 2 years and it works as
> well as the commercial version that I used under SYS V
> for over 8 years.  You can find download details here:

The "canonical" location for that was <http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/u/rridge/
mysc/index.html>; I gather that it's gotten a bit of development attention of 
late, which is good, because Ross hadn't been working on it probably since our 
days in Waterloo.
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