Sun WorkShop TeamWare

Sun WorkShop TeamWare (later Forte TeamWare, then Forte Code Management Software) is a distributed

Sun Studio

product.

TeamWare's largest deployment was inside Sun itself, where (bar a few exceptions) at one point it was the only

Mercurial

.

TeamWare features a number of advanced features not found in earlier version control systems like

Subversion and Perforce. TeamWare allows distributed development

by copying a repository to another which might reside on another machine or network. Developers can then commit changes to the local copy of the repository, periodically integrating accumulated changes in the local repository back into the original repository.

TeamWare is implemented as a layer over the older

NFS

.

Evan Adams was the architectural lead for TeamWare.

better source needed]^[discuss

] and Larry McVoy authored smoosh, a tool to merge SCCS files,^[5] which is said to be a precursor to TeamWare.^[6] The BitKeeper version control system, designed by McVoy, shares a number of design concepts with the earlier TeamWare.

References

^ SunPro (November 30, 1992). "New Code Management Tools from SunPro Address Critical Need for Workgroup Development Tools". New SunPro Code Management Tools. The Florida SunFlash. Vol. 47, no. 35. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
^ "Forte Developer: General FAQs". Sun Studio. Sun Microsystems. Archived from the original on 2005-03-11.
^ "The Old Man and the C". USENIX ASSOCIATION. Retrieved 2008-03-19.
^ US 5481722, Glenn Skinner, "Method and apparatus for merging change control delta structure files of a source module from a parent and a child development environment", issued 1996-01-02, assigned to Sun Microsystems Inc
^ McVoy, Larry (October 29, 1991). "Smoosh - a tool for merging related SCCS s-files" (PDF). BitMover. Retrieved 2019-09-09.
^ Dik, Casper (April 25, 2005). "Solaris Live DVD/CD". Opensolaris-discuss (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2011-10-05.

External links

Sun WorkShop TeamWare 6 User's Guide, May 2000
SPARCworks/TeamWare ProWorks/TeamWare Users Guide, 1995

[sf199211-1] SunPro (November 30, 1992). "New Code Management Tools from SunPro Address Critical Need for Workgroup Development Tools". New SunPro Code Management Tools. The Florida SunFlash. Vol. 47, no. 35. Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2019-09-09.

[2] "Forte Developer: General FAQs". Sun Studio. Sun Microsystems. Archived from the original on 2005-03-11.

[3] "The Old Man and the C". USENIX ASSOCIATION. Retrieved 2008-03-19.

[4] US 5481722, Glenn Skinner, "Method and apparatus for merging change control delta structure files of a source module from a parent and a child development environment", issued 1996-01-02, assigned to Sun Microsystems Inc

[5] McVoy, Larry (October 29, 1991). "Smoosh - a tool for merging related SCCS s-files" (PDF). BitMover. Retrieved 2019-09-09.

[6] Dik, Casper (April 25, 2005). "Solaris Live DVD/CD". Opensolaris-discuss (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2011-10-05.

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