Sun WorkShop TeamWare (later Forte TeamWare, then Forte Code Management Software) is a distributed
source code
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Since a computer, at base, only ...
revision control
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system made by
Sun Microsystems
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. It was first announced in November 1992 as SPARCworks/TeamWare and ProWorks/TeamWare and made commercially available in 1993.
Last available as part of the
Forte Developer 6 update 2 product, TeamWare is no longer being offered for sale, and is not part of the
Sun Studio product.
TeamWare's largest deployment was inside Sun itself, where (bar a few exceptions) at one point it was the only
VCS used. TeamWare had been used to manage Sun's largest source trees, including those for
Solaris and
Java
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, but as part of the process of converting those code bases to
open source
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communities, they were moved to newer revision control systems such as
Mercurial.
TeamWare features a number of advanced features not found in earlier version control systems like
RCS and
CVS. In particular, it features a hierarchy of source repositories, and allows atomic updates of multiple files, features found in later version-control systems such as
Subversion
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and
Perforce. TeamWare allows
distributed development by copying a repository to another which might reside on another machine or network. Developers can then commit changes to the local copy of the repository, periodically integrating accumulated changes in the local repository back into the original repository.
TeamWare is implemented as a layer over the older
SCCS, which is used to track changes to individual files. TeamWare works only by a system of files accessed by
client programs (interacting without a
server) and most distributed users of a repository access it by means of a mounted
networked filesystem such as
NFS.
Evan Adams was the architectural lead for TeamWare. Glenn Skinner was the inventor of ''smoosh''
and
Larry McVoy authored ''smoosh'', a tool to merge SCCS files, which is said to be a precursor to TeamWare.
The
BitKeeper
BitKeeper is a discontinued software tool for distributed revision control of computer source code. Originally developed as proprietary software by BitMover Inc., a privately held company based in Los Gatos, California, it was released as open-sou ...
version control system, designed by McVoy, shares a number of design concepts with the earlier TeamWare.
References
External links
Sun WorkShop TeamWare 6 User's Guide May 2000
SPARCworks/TeamWare ProWorks/TeamWare Users Guide 1995
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