[TUHS] SCCS roach motel

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Henry Bent <henry.r.bent at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 14:03, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 11:32:57AM -0700, Marc Rochkind wrote:
> >
> > > Was your implementation of SCCS ever released by itself?
> >
> > See if the wayback machine has BitSCCS somewhere.  It was pretty early,
> > before Rick showed up to fix my screwups.  He did point out that my
> > weave implementation was the only one written such that I could have
> > N serial sets in my hand, and do one pass through the weave and get
> > N different checked out files.  I don't think we ever used that but
> > if we did it would be in smerge.c.
> >
>
> There are many preservations of http://www.bitmover.com/bitsccs/, but since
> the BitSCCS sources were distributed via FTP the wayback machine doesn't
> have the actual sources.
>
> I did a bit of searching and found
> ftp://linux.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/pub/linux/distributions/historic/jurix/source/compile/BitSCCS-0.5.2.tar.gz
> ; I don't know where that falls in the product's lifetime.
>
> -Henry

Larry,

What about GNU CSSC? (https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/cssc/)? Isn't that a
reimplementation of SCCS?

Hmm, the README and THANKS file in it provide some info. It's not
a full clone, there are some missing features.

The last release is from 2019.

Arnold