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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: pck@vnp.com (Paul King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: VNP Software Announces DevMan Date: 1 Sep 1993 17:50:20 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 61 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <2635es$q1c@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: Paul_King@vnp.com Contact: Ronald V. Simmons VNP Software, Inc. Phone: (802) 496-7799 Fax: (802) 496-7790 Email: DevMan_Info@vnp.com Cambridge, MA - September 1, 1993 - VNP Software today announced availability of DevMan, a low cost tool for synchronizing multi-programmer/ multi-project software development. DevMan provides source code control and configuration management support for projects of any size to expedite the development process. DevMan's user interface provides programmers with much easier, more reliable access to source code control functions, e.g., those available from RCS or SCCS. Daily tasks, such as checking files in and out or synchronizing your work area with other developers' work, can be performed directly from the Workspace Manager's "Services" menu. Additional consistency features extend the usefulness of source-code control - identifying newly added or modified files during the check-in process, and automatically removing files that others have deleted from the repository. DevMan also transparently handles NeXT file packages such as .nib and .dbmodel directories. Central to DevMan's design is the concept of "development branches," which allows parallel independent development in the same directory. For example, development branches allow developers to apply emergency fixes to a protected production branch within a source-code repository - allowing an easy merge of production fixes with the active development branch when appropriate. DevMan uses development branches in conjunction with "configuration maps" to designate static or dynamic configurations of any set of source files. This key feature allows all of the files and directories for any project to be grouped, maintained, released and recovered as a single unit, using very simple commands. DevMan also offers a security layer that lets you control access to operations at both the configuration management and source code control levels. "DevMan gives us sophisticated configuration management and source-code control at a fraction of the cost of competing products," said Jim Loree, Senior Software Analyst, Chrysler Financial Corporation. "Our developers rely on DevMan's synchronization features to coordinate their work, and the configuration management features are essential for managing our systems across the development, test and production phases." DevMan is priced at $395 per seat and is available immediately. A demo version of DevMan is available via anonymous ftp at vnp.com in the /pub directory. A demo version may also be obtained via NeXTMail (large) by sending mail to DevMan_Demo@vnp.com. VNP Software (Cambridge, MA) offers development tools and consulting expertise to the NEXTSTEP community. Other VNP Software products include the AccessKit, for class-based database access; the UIBinder Palette, for binding object information to the user interface; and the IXAdaptor, the DBKit adaptor for NeXT's Indexing Kit.
These are the contents of the former NiCE NeXT User Group NeXTSTEP/OpenStep software archive, currently hosted by Marcel Waldvogel and Netfuture.ch.