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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: lm@mcvoy.com, henry.r.bent@gmail.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, mrochkind@gmail.com
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SCCS roach motel
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:29:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202412141829.4BEITjPU1728398@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdTPBcjW_rXf+g=0twQrU0Dfsj6yytNHA_+N5Byr__4YxKHCQ@mail.gmail.com>

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

> On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 14:03, Larry McVoy <lm@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

  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-14 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-13 16:52 [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
     [not found] ` <A6DE3D0A-8ED7-4E82-87CF-F2BC7AE11761@seiden.com>
2024-12-13 17:58   ` [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-12-13 21:09     ` Dan Cross
2024-12-14  1:11       ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-14  1:27         ` Dan Cross
2024-12-14  1:39           ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-14  6:20           ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-14  1:38         ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 18:06 ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 18:32   ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-13 18:39     ` Marc Rochkind
2024-12-13 18:49       ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 18:55     ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 19:55       ` Henry Bent
2024-12-14 18:29         ` arnold [this message]
2024-12-14 18:59           ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 21:46     ` Clem Cole
2024-12-13 21:22 ` Rob Pike
2024-12-13 21:27   ` Rob Pike
2024-12-13 21:37     ` Aron Insinga
2024-12-13 21:40       ` Aron Insinga
2024-12-14  0:37 ` Luther Johnson
2024-12-13 22:33 Norman Wilson
2024-12-17  0:21 ` andrew
2024-12-13 22:57 Norman Wilson
2024-12-13 23:19 ` Larry McVoy
2024-12-13 23:38   ` Warner Losh
2024-12-14  0:53     ` Larry McVoy

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