Lezz,
hmmm, is this another sonic screwdriver? :-)
Ummmm, since is is GNU trueprint, might there
be a home that folks might pick this tool up from?
-Mark
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lezz Giles [mailto:lgiles@avici.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 2:35 PM
> To: Pete McKay; cciug@Rational.Com
> Subject: Re: Fwd: [cciug] Ever hear of "trueprint"?
>
>
>
> Speaking as something of an authority on trueprint...
>
> There are actually two versions of trueprint:
> - Version 1 has recently been added to Lucent's exptools.
> This version
> is based on the trueprint that has lived and been
> enhanced at Bell Labs
> (specifically in Malmesbury, England by Mark Skeates)
> since I left there
> about
> ten years ago.
> - Version 2 has grown and been enhanced by me as I move from company
> to company. Version 2 has just recently become GNU Trueprint.
>
> The two versions are somewhat divergent. Version 1 has changed less -
> Mark has added features as the requests were passed to him, but as far
> as I know most of the requests originated within Lucent, so
> the features
> are reasonably Lucent-specific. Version 2 has grown significantly and
> has gone through several major rewrites (including a recent
> minor rewrite
> to get it to GNU coding and documentation standards). IMBO version 2
> is the more "standard" and better version, but don't let Mark
> hear me say
> that :-) I wouldn't be surprised if version 1 includes
> Sablime-specific
> stuff
> for obvious reasons.
>
> I've resisted putting Clearcase-specific stuff into GNU
> trueprint, but only
> because I haven't seen any demand for it. You should be able
> to print a
> diff-output for a single file using the standard -O or
> --diff option, but
> I can't think of a simple way to generate the formatted diff
> output for a
> collection of files. If I get a lot of responses to this
> mail saying that
> this
> would be a neat thing to have then I'll add it somehow. And
> of course if
> there are other desired enhancements then I'll take those too...
>
> I seem to be off the cciug list right now, so if you want me
> to see any
> replies to this mail please make sure I'm on the to: list...
>
> Lezz Giles
>
> Pete McKay wrote:
>
> > Hey Lezz...
> >
> > Isn't Trueprint your baby?! If so, you'll probably want to
> step in here
> > and straighten this person out...
> >
> > >X-From_: cciug-owner@Rational.Com Tue Feb 29 10:20:50 2000
> > >Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 10:13:08 -0500
> > >From: Patricia Emser <pemser@paradyne.com>
> > >Organization: Paradyne
> > >X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.6 sun4m)
> > >X-Accept-Language: en
> > >To: cciug@Rational.Com
> > >Subject: [cciug] Ever hear of "trueprint"?
> > >Sender: owner-cciug@Rational.Com
> > >X-Majordomo-Taboo: cciug
> > >
> > >CCIUG,
> > >
> > >We have a team who is migrating from AT&T's SABLIME tool
> to ClearCase.
> > >The big request is "how can we use ClearCase to produce
> our Code Review
> > >data in a way similar to using Trueprint?" Trueprint is
> an AT&T/Bell
> > >Labs tool that provided formatted printouts of source differences,
> > >function indexes, etc.
> > >
> > >They don't feel that cleardiff will meet their needs with
> ClearCase.
> > >
> > >Anyone have any tool suggestions/ideas?
> > >
> > >THANKS,
> > >
> > >Trish Emser
> >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------
> > --Pete
> > "The only place where success comes before
> > work is in the dictionary." -- Vidal Sassoon
>
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