NeXT project management software

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 01:30

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My request for info about NeXT project management software resulted in few
responses, probably because there's not much out there.

RCS is distributed with NeXTSTEP, but the last time I looked (2.1), it was a
very old version.  RCS is file-based, so is not very suitable for the complex
3.0 development directory structure.

CVS extends RCS to the directory level and adds binary file version control
capabilities.  3.0 InterfaceBuilder and ProjectBuilder don't work well with the
CVS administrative directories placed in each directory under CVS control.
I've written make targets that seem to take care of these problems, but this
isn't a foolproof solution.  NeXT probably won't address this problem in 3.0.

Oceania, a NeXT developer, uses an internally-developed project management
system called CheckItOut.  It's available as unsupported shareware for a very
reasonable price, but I've not looked at it yet.

No one at NeXT has commented on what is used by NeXT.

The lack of project management software is certainly recognized so we can only
hope that some developer will take advantage of this market opportunity.

Meanwhile, back to CVS for now.  Wonder what it would take to add a NeXTSTEP
front-end to this puppy?....
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
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From: isbell@cats.ucsc.edu (Art Isbell)
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Subject: NeXT project management software
Summary: RCS, CVS, CheckItOut are about all there seems to be
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