From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 16:58:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA02377 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (dns1.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.44.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA02372 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 16:58:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from platon (platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk [134.219.96.1]) by platon.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id BAA25818 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 01:01:12 +0100 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 01:01:12 +0100 (BST) From: " Stephen P. Butler" X-Sender: stephen@platon To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using rcs with `what' In-Reply-To: <199605172122.XAA00727@eac.iafrica.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 May 1996, Robert Nordier wrote: > One point is: any particular version control system is a development > tool and is likely to be unavailable at an end-user site. But it > is easy enough to say on the phone, "Run 'what' and tell me what > version of the 'foo' library the program's using." > > It's not a big thing, either way, but 'what' probably has its niche. Perhaps the best solution is to ship a single program who's job is to look for identification strings in programs. Maybe this functionality might be included in ident or what or in a third new program. Backwards compatibility could be maintained by using links to the old program names. The other advantage of this is that there would only be a single program to maintain, rather than having to fuss about what, ident, fred's new version program for his new source code control system, ... Just my two penneth worth... Regards, Stephen. ---------------------------------------------------------------- |Stephen Butler |stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk | |Computer Science Undergraduate. | | |Royal Holloway, University of London.| | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------