Ron Poulton pounded furiously on the keyboard: > To Billy H. Chan (bhchan@csua.berkeley.edu): > I'm the only coder of the CircleMUD running here; there are a couple of > people who are developing ideas for the MUD, and until I can ensure that > people don't code what they're not supposed to, I'll be the only coder. > (Which is really annoying. Heh.) You should investigate using a configuration management (CM) system, such as CVS, RCS, or (bleh) SCCS. A configuration management system will allow you to track source code changes. Some CM systems will even allow more than one person to work on the same file simultaneously -- it will take care of merging the changes, warning you of any conflicts. (CVS, the CM I use, does this.) Some CM systems also allow modifications to take place on different "version branches." This allows one to create a new version branch to do something special (such as adding zone idling code :) that he or she doesn't want to necessarily have added to the main code until they're satisfied it's ready for prime-time. A colleague and I use CVS on a project at work. We are both able to work in parallel on the code. I've set up CVS to send e-mail to each other anytime we commit any code changes; that way, we keep each other abreast of one another's progress. Since we typically work in different areas of the code, commit conflicts have been minimal. Those conflicts that have occurred, CVS heartily flagged -- most of them turn out to be something as innocuous as formatting differences (e.g., the amount of spaces allocated for tab stops). CVS has been a _big_ help to our project. I wouldn't start a new one without it or something darned similar. CVS is in the public domain. I just grabbed the latest incarnation, version 1.6, from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu yesterday. Mark -- Mark Coletti | DBA Systems, Inc. Fairfax, VA mcoletti@clark.net | United States Geological Survey http://www.clark.net/pub/mcoletti | Office of Standards & Technology I had my car's alignment checked. It's chaotic evil!
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