Version control

Has anyone used "version control" software?

The application I am now working on
will evolve over time for performance and
functionality improvement, bug fixes, and
customization. I will need to keep track of
version differences in order to diagnose
bugs and propagate bug fixes and new
functionality among the various flavors.
Of crucial importance is responding
quickly to end-user bug reports on past
versions, which requires retrieval of past
version source and preferrably the
extraction of all changes between it and
the latest version.

The most commonly seen version control
packages appear to be either in the
multi-thousand-$ price bracket, which is too
expensive, or a pain to deal with, especially
without Unix or Linux. CVS (Concurrent
Version System) is the prime example of
the latter: designed for large multi-site
team projects, and no small project in itself
to install and use. In my case, a single-user
system without fancy file checkout locks and
client-server repository access will do.

Has anyone found such a thing (at a modest
price)? Are they in general compatible with
Forth? It would be nice to be able to use it
with text documents, schematics, etc; are
they generalized enough for this?

Gratefully,

Alan Furman

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Received on Tue Jun 01 2004 - 12:49:52 PDT