APPENDIX: UCM Update History

Author: Peter Kasper

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Version 5.3:

Fixed a bug where opened pipes were not being properly closed.

Version 5.2:

Incorporated a number of minor bug fixes.
Added a link to the element web display which allows the user to change revisions without going back to the library screen.
Added support for Linux systems.

Version 5.1:

Added the possibility for using a different user name with the remote host option in GUVM.
Removed CVS from the setup requirements. Use RCS instead.
Changed the perl reference at the beginning of each script with the more robust .. #!/usr/bin/env perl

Version 5.0:

Added, GUVM, a graphical user interface with a built in help facility.
Incorporated the ability to run UVM remotely and still have input/ouptut files accessed on the local platform.

Version 4.4:

Removed annoying rlog error messages which occurred when attemptin to find a non existent version of an element.

Version 4.3:

Improved the security of the UVM web scripts.
Protected UVMroot against a "relative URL" bug affecting cgi scripts. I.e. prevents browers from getting confused when the root URL is referenced with / at the end.
UVMHTML now preserves any existing UVMuser script.

Version 4.2:

Changed UVMHTML and its associated scripts so that they can work on CVS repositories as well as UVM libraries.
Modified UVM commands to allow as much compatibility with CVS as possible.
Introduced hyperlinking tools into UVMelem and UVMuser.

Version 4.1:

Changed the default library loops in UVMI, UVMA, and UVMBLD to scan directory trees and provided a -F option to turn off this behaviour when necessary.
Modified the handling of revision identifiers so as to be able to take advantage of the free format date parsing used by RCS.
Added a -d option to "UVM SHOW CHANGES" and a -n option to "UVM SHOW HISTORY".
Made changes to uvmhtml and its associated scripts required to handle the above changes as well as some cosmetic changes to the output web pages.
Improved the name substitution in "UVM RENAME".
Modified KPP to ensure that all lines end in a carriage return.

Version 4.0:

Added the RENAME command to uvma.
Introduced dates as revision specifiers.
Added the -r option to the "uvm show list" command and modified its output format. Also added this command to library web pages generated by uvmhtml.
Added help buttons to the pages produced by uvmhtml.
Fixed a bug in the uvm web pages generated by html by adding an explicit path to the perl command.
Cleaned up some message reporting.
Reworked the documentation.

Version 3.1:

Modified UVMBLD to use make variables for target and UVM source directory paths.
Removed a system dependence in KPP.
Modified UVMHTML to add a ucm setup to each web command script.
Dropped support for a VAX/VMS KPP executable.

Version 3.0:

Added the UVMHTML utilities.
Changed the name of the uvmi ELEMENT command to uvmi HISTORY.
Changed internal mechanism for updating library decriptions in order to protect against aborted changes.

Version 2.5:

Added CONTENTS command to uvmi.

Version 2.4:

Changed the file looping routines used by uvma, uvmi, and uvmbld in order to be able handle larger libraries.

Version 2.3:

Added the DEFAULT commands to uvmi and uvma.
Added the uvm interface to uvmi and uvma commands.

Version 2.2:

Added the DEPENDENCY command to uvmi.
Added protection in uvma against double reservations by the same user.
Added code to extract and translate environment variables withing KPP.

Version 2.1:

Added the UNRESERVE command to uvma.
Fixed bugs in the creation and removal of groups.
Improved the efficiency of uvmbld by removing unnecessary file accesses.

Version 2.0:

Added the "group" concept to all uvma, uvmi, and uvmbld commands and performed a general "clean-up" of the software.
Modified the uvmi LIST command to be able to list parts of a library such as the members of a group.
Added GROUP and UNGROUP commands to uvma.
Added the GROUPS command to uvmi.
Added defaults to the uvmbld element specifiaction so as to be consistant with uvma and uvmi usage.
Added a new option
I to KPP to address situations involving large directory lists.

Version 1.8:

Added the REMOVE, INSERT, and MOVE commands to uvma.

Version 1.7:

Added the LIST command to uvmi.

Version 1.6:

Added the DIFFERENCE command to uvmi.
Converted all date functions within uvmi to GMT.
Updated the command summary produced by uvma.
Added options to make kpp insert comment lines before and after the contents of each include file.
Added protection against an empty
i option followed by another option flag.

Version 1.5:

Fixed a bug in KPP which only affected SunOS versions.
Modified uvma replace command to skip over directory files.

Version 1.4:

Added uvma commands to change the descriptions of libraries and elements.
Modified uvma's
c option to allow input from a file.

Version 1.3:

Improved the handling of options on uvma and uvmi commands. A space is now permissable between the option flag and the option value.
Modified KPP to add a / to the end of include file directory specifications if the last character was an alphanumeric.
Changed name of "update" command to "uvmbld" to avoid conflicts with other products.

Version 1.2:

In order to work around the platform dependence of the RCS implimentation calls to the check command have been replaced with rlog calls.
Some bugs affecting the UVM/HISTORY file were fixed.

Version 1.1:

In order to reduce the amount of typing required in specifying library paths a way of establishing a default library specification was implemented.

Version 1.0:

Initial version consisting of the initial four Perl scripts (uvma, uvmi, CHECKIN, and update) and the C program (KPP) which was compiled for IRIX, AIX, SunOS, VAX VMS and AXP VMS systems.