QVCS (Quma Version Control System) is a family of
version control system
Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files; primarily source code ...
products historically published by Quma Software, Inc.
History
QVCS was first published in 1991 as a set of command line utilities for the
Amiga
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.
Quma ported that original Amiga product to the
Microsoft Windows
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platform in 1996. In 2000, QVCS-Pro was introduced with additional features, including support for MSSCCI compliant
Source Control Plug-in API integrated development environment
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s. In 2004, the
cross-platform
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QVCS-Enterprise product was introduced.
QVCS and QVCS-Pro are written in
C++
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. QVCS-Enterprise is written in
Java
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.
On January 1, 2012, QVCS-Pro and QVCS were made freeware. QVCS-Enterprise followed suit on June 16, 2012, and then was open sourced under the Apache 2.0 License on March 2, 2014.
At some time after June 23, 2013, the domain name qumasoft.com was abandoned. It is now (June 2015) owned by a weight loss company. The contents of the Web site when it was operated by the author of QVCS is available on the
Wayback Machine
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.
Market
QVCS and QVCS-Pro target smaller Windows only development teams. QVCS-Enterprise is a
client–server application, is cross-platform, and is designed for use by distributed development teams.
See also
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Revision control
Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files; primarily source code ...
*
List of revision control software
This is a list of notable version control software systems.
Common attributes
*Openness, whether the software is ''open'' source or ''proprietary''
*Repository model, how working and shared source code is handled
**Shared, all developers use the ...
References
External links
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{{Revision control software
Proprietary version control systems
Free version control software
Discontinued version control systems