Re: Fwd: [cciug] Ever hear of "trueprint"?

From: Steven W. Orr (steveo@world.std.com)
Date: Tue Feb 29 2000 - 14:45:54 EST


I just grabbed the latest version of trueprint and even managed to find it
in a .src.rpm format for linux.

Very cool. The world owes you.

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On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, Lezz Giles wrote:

=> =>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

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