Configuration management

Configuration management tools or CM's, are toolkits that handle all and any aspects of managing source code, in the commercial world there has been a tendency to integrate all functions of source code management into all singing and all dancing multi user development toolkits that (potentially) handle anything from initial creation to debugging and everything in between, but in the open source world there has been more popular to separate the "creation time" management tasks into single user make like utilities and have versioning as a separate set of multi-user tools and so on so forth.

This sort of a modular approach has its advantages, but the downside is that creating automatic features such as generation of documentation, code and system integration and library management become much harder if not nigh impossible.

Our links section contains a collection of links to online source management and hosting platforms.

OS/2 Configuration management tools

• VisualAge TeamConnection

Revision control

• Concurrent Versions System (CVS)
• Revision Control System (RCS)
• SUBVERSION

Build control

• CMake
• Make
• NMake
• Opus Make

Bug trackers

• Mantis
• OS/2 Problem Tracker

Language or development tool specific CM tools

• ENVY/Developer - For Smalltalk systems only - Commercial - Discontinued

Online software configuration management hosts

Note that most of these offer only source management and versioning

• GitHub - Source code repository and version control - Free for open source projects
• Netlabs - A repository for OS/2 open-source projects - Free
• SourceForge - The oldest and most flexible of the free source/project sites.

Links

• The old comp.software.config-mgmt FAQ - Outdated but contains a few interesting pieces of information