[Info-vax] XQP File Versions (was: Re: What does VMS get used for, these days?)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/1/2022 12:31 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2022-11-08 22:21, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> As a competitive feature, I suspect there'd be much more interest in 
>> integration with git or hg and with common IDE such as VSC than with 
>> the existing file versioning scheme. But sure, XQP file versioning 
>> does work for smaller efforts and smaller pools, and it does work when 
>> the developer and the local tooling is lacking. (Which it kinda is 
>> lacking, on OpenVMS. VSC and VGIT only gets you so far. The current 
>> compiler overhaul will absolutely help, as that becomes available. And 
>> that'll then help with better VSC integration, too.)
> 
> Didn't VMS have some tool for source control?

Lots of options.

DECset has CMS.

RCS runs on VMS.

Mercurial runs on VMS.

VGIT (subset of Git) runs on VMS.

SVN runs on VMS I64.

CVS supposedly runs on VMS.

SVNKit (Java SVN) supposedly runs on VMS.

Arne