The Puppet-VcsTools-File package provides a GUI interface to the VcsTools-File package. With both these packages you will be able to manage HMS or RCS file with a graphical user interface and perform the following function:

• check-in, check-out of files
• lock and unlock
• display a graph showing the revision tree (with bindings to easily get diff between revision or the log of each revision)
• edit the history information through a dedicated window and archive it in the Vcs system.
• help to merge revision by checking out the different revision and connect you to xemacs ediff session to let you perform the merge.
• keep a cache in a MLDBM file so that a history retrieve is not necessary each time you start the tool.

Suggested DSLI line:
Puppet::VcsTools::File bdpO GUI for VCS file management tools DDUMONT

Note that only HP HMS and RCS are currently implemented. HMS is part of the HP Softbench CM product. If this address is reachable, you can get more info on http://www.hp.com/esy/go/softbench.html

This module also contains an executable perl program named hmsWork. This exec file is the user callable program to actually monitor the HMS file.

I've also provided a rcsWork program to manage RCS files.

I'd like people who actually use this module for their application to drop me a short note about what they're using this module for.

This module was written with perl5.005 and Tk800.015.

See the embedded documentation in the module for more details.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

Note that this module is in beta state. Its interface may change (but I hope not).

Legal mumbo jumbo:

Copyright (c) 1998-1999 Dominique Dumont. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

• Dominique Dumont dominique_dumont@grenoble.hp.com

         gunzip -c <dist_file>.tar.gz | tar xvf -
         cd <dist_directory>
         perl Makefile.PL
         make test          
         make install