QVCS Product Family Newsletter - April 2006

Publication date: April 7, 2006

QVCS/QVCS-Pro: 3.10.7 Release Now Available
QVCS/QVCS-Pro Tip: Enabling Unix style file separators
QVCS/QVCS-Pro: In the Pipeline
QVCS-ENTERPRISE: 2.0 is work in progress

QVCS/QVCS-Pro: 3.10.7 Release Now Available

The 3.10.7 release is available for download from the usual locations:

http://www.qumasoft.com/QVCSSetup.exe

http://www.qumasoft.com/qvcs.zip.

This is a 'free' update to users who have purchased their license within the past year. Users with older licenses will have to update their license in order to use this release.

This is a bug-fix release to clean up some of the problems introduced in the earlier 3.9.x and 3.10.6 releases. There are more details available here.

QVCS/QVCS-Pro Tip: Enabling Unix style file separators

If you do any development work in Java, then you need to be careful if you use keyword expansion using any keyword that expands into a file path (e.g. $Log$, $LogX$, $Filename$). The Sun Java compiler recognizes the \u sequence as an escape character, and won't compile your source code if it finds the \u sequence in an unexpected place, even if it's located in comments. So, for example, if any of your directories begin with the letter 'u', you could be in trouble.

The workaround within QVCS is to enable the 'Use UNIX path separators in keyword expansions' check box (via the Project/Edit Settings... dialog on the Settings tab). When this check box is enabled, then QVCS will use the forward slash character ('/') when expanding file path keywords. This makes it so you can continue to use QVCS keyword expansion in .java files. (Keyword expansion in QVCs-Enterprise always uses the forward slash character to separate directory segments).

QVCS/QVCS-Pro: In the Pipeline

The next release for QVCS and QVCS-Pro will likely be after the 2.0 release of QVCS-Enterprise sometime in the summer. If you have any feature requests or bug reports, now is the time make your wishes known. Absent any major bugs, the next release will likely focus again on usability -- but nothing is firm yet. If you have an itch that you need the next release to scratch, please let me know.

QVCS-ENTERPRISE: 2.0 is work in progress

I've been making good progress on QVCS-Enterprise 2.0. It's still too early to commit to a release date, but the IDE integration (the main new feature for QVCS-E 2.0) is now to the point where I can self-host development work for it. Performance is good, even with all the debug logging that remains in the code.

I will want to have a lengthy public beta test for this next release, so if you are interested in helping out, please let me know. I'm especially interested in users who have a non-Visual Studio IDE that supports Microsoft's SCC API (e.g. PowerBuilder).