Re: RCS internals

[Rupesh Shantamurty]

Hi /a
Thanks for your detailed response. I got the Source of RCS and
installed it on my windows desktop using Cygwin (used the appropriate
patches also) . It's working fine now.
I wanted to know the internals of RCS. 
1.What are it's modules? 
2.What modules get accessed and what data structures get modified when
one executes a command
e.g. What happens internally when one executes % co -l sample.c.

I wanted a kind of Design document for RCS. Since it's open source. I
wanted to analyse it's code and modify it.
Can you guide me as to where can I get a design document kind of
information for RCS?

Regards,
Rupesh Shantamurty

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:57:47 -0500 (EST), Aaron S. Hawley
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Rupesh Shantamurty wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > Can someone please tell me the internals of RCS. I want to know how it
> > works.
> 
> To learn how RCS[1] works read the paper[2] by Walter Tichy[3], who
> originally designed and developed RCS, which comes in the source
> distribution[4] of RCS.
> 
> Because RCS is free software[5], you can (among other things) read the
> actual source code and tinker with it to see how it works.  My own
> experience is that one shouldn't spend too much time because it's not
> clearly written C code.  It appears even Tichy decided to rewrite his
> proprietary implementation[6] of RCS in Java and C/C++.
> 
> Happy hacking,
> /a
> 
> References
> 
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/
> 
> [2] Tichy's paper is available at Citeseer:
> <http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/tichy91rc.html>, and an HTML version is
> located here <http://www.uvm.edu/~ashawley/rcs/tichy1985rcs/html/>.
> 
> [3] Walter F. Tichy's Current home page <http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/~tichy/>
> 
> [4] Source code available from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/rcs/>
> 
> [5] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> 
> [6] Revision Control Engine (RCE) <http://www.aicas.com/rce.html>
> 
> >
> > Regards
> > Rupesh Shantamurty
> 
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