RCS info wanted

[Mark Fresolone]

One significant advantage that RCS has over SCCS is the ability to
tag any version of a file with a "symbolic version" string.  By tagging,
say, all current versions of a set of files with the same "symbolic
version" string one can essentially identify a "release".  SCCS has no
such feature, and thus is often accompanied by locally written scripts
to extract all of the file versions which make up a configuration,
store them away, and if they're good (and not so simple), retrieve them.

There is also another similar feature in RCS that we use to identify
internal configurations such as "last stable version", or "current
unit test", called the RCS "state".

While these two features alone don't qualify RCS as a full "configuration
management" package, they are very useful, and are perhaps the most
significant RCS advantage over SCCS.

Mark Fresolone					mjf at mjm.com,  rutgers!mjm!mjf
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